Six issues of a University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) newsletter by and for teaching assistants (TAs) are presented. Each newsletter is a theme issue, covering writing, anxiety, motivation, TA role, and TA training. Topics include: student problems and psychological and counseling services, philosophies about writing, approaches to making writing assignments, holistic reading of student writing, performance anxiety in students and teachers, writing anxiety, speech anxiety (reticence), math anxiety, motivating university students, the role of TAs with respect to students and faculty, the TA and the faculty adviser, the TA consultant program at UCLA, videotaping, peer observation, TA orientation program in English as a Second Language, the demonstration class, and TA apprenticeship programs in philosophy. (SW)