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Panelists look to promote hip hop's historical influence, not rap culture
Hip hop experts met Monday at the Doheny Memorial Library Intellectual Commons to discuss the influence of hip hop in American popular culture and politics.

Judge upholds ruling that 22-year-old suspended student cannot be charged with murdering her newborn son.
by Joshua Sharp in News
A second Los Angeles judge threw out the murder charge against a suspended USC student accused of killing her newborn child on Tuesday. Holly Ashcraft, a 22-year-old architecture major who has stood trial for two years, still faces a June 27 hearing for one charge of child abuse.…

When UCLA announced its decision last year to adopt a holistic admissions process, some expressed hope that the new system would help increase the number of underrepresented minorities admitted to the university. Officials said at the time that holistic review was intended to make admissions more fair by placing more emphasis on students’ personal qualities and achievements.

Users place bids to answer questions at Student of Fortune. Some say services border on cheating.
by Arin Mikailian in News
Auction websites have been known to offer everything from designer bags to alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary on a slice of toast, but one new site's product is of high demand to college students: homework help. Shortly after graduating from Occidental College in 2006, Sean McCleese teamed up with a friend to launch the online tutoring site Student of Fortune.…

by Patrick McFawn
The trial of Saddam Hussein delivered a verdict this weekend, sentencing the former Iraqi dictator to death for crimes against humanity. Despite his request for a death by firing squad, Saddam Hussein will be put to death by hanging. While also standing a second trial, Hussein was convicted of ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite men and boys in 1982 in the town of Dujail.…

Occasionally an event so astoundingly dumb occurs that one is forced to consider throwing up his hands in disgust and banishing himself to one of those tiny islands off the coast of Maine, far from the torments of civilization.
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