After Indiana Governor Mike Pence passed a bill on religion that was justifiably met with uproar, I was ready to give up on the future of American politics. Pence’s response to protests, however, has me singing a different tune.

Santa Clara does not have a good basketball team and hasn’t in decades.

With six seconds left, University of Kentucky guard Andrew Harrison hit game-winning free throws to defeat University of Notre Dame, who played almost a perfect game but lost.

[dropcap]K[/dropcap]anye West and Taylor Swift were not destined to hate each other. It happened by accident.

This weekend’s revelation that the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers have given over $1.25 million to a foremost climate change denier does little to dispel the notion that “money can’t buy happiness.” It does suggest, however, that wealth can buy power, influence and integrity.

I thought the NBA playoffs were pretty clear-cut before the 2015 trade deadline shook everything up.

A response to Patrick McDonell's week 5 opinion piece, titled “Cam­pus Leadership: It’s Not Rain­ing Men Anymore.”

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he disgraced “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams embellished a 2003 helicopter crash in Iraq. This sparked widespread scrutiny of the claims made during his decade-long career and cul­minated in his six month unpaid suspension from the network last Tuesday.

It is easy to ignore privilege when you are on the receiving end of it. A three-week program at Santa Clara aims to focus on the issue of privilege within students’ lives without trying to guilt or shame anyone, but instead, by inspiring students to be allies and empowered individuals.

The “Baby-Faced Assassin” should take home the hardware for MVP this season, not just because of his stat-line, but because he’s changing the league.

Is the Jesuit Pope Francis receives worldwide sup- aport for his progressive and accepting nature, a conservative archbishop in San Francisco is emphatically taking a different path.

The NBA has defended its referees for as long as it has thrived as a league. Criticism from coaches and players about bad calls has always taken place and will continue as long as there is human error.

Neither the university nor our larger society is served by the lack of men stepping up to become responsible leaders.

In the weeks after the non-indictment of the officers who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y., protesters have adopted the tactic of clogging up roads, highways and intersections in an effort to do more than merely disrupt traffic.

As a Chicano student, I am regularly one of the only minority students in my classes. I can count the number oof non-white professors whose classes I have taken on one hand. I have been questioned as to why I am majoring in English if I am Mexican.

Last Sunday, filmmaker Michael Moore faced massive backlash when he tweeted that his uncle was killed by a sniper during World War Two. He then mentioned that he was taught snipers were cowards that would shoot you in the back.

Tom Brady and Bill Belichick’s success has not come without its fair share of controversies over the years, and with the recent “Deflate-gate” findings this week, the league must take a stand and say enough is enough.