Status updates for Facebook are common among UCLA students; HIV/AIDS updates are not. The theme for this year's World AIDS Day, occurring today, is "Have you Updated Your Status?" playing off of the popular networking site. Students are encouraged to get tested and have open communication with their partners, said Kaitlynn Yandell, a second-year international development studies student and an AIDS Ambassador. World AIDS Day is put on by the Student Welfare Commission and AIDS Awareness Committee on campus. "It's just a way for people to get talking about AIDS in a fun type of environment," said Anjum Bokhari, co-director for the AIDS Awareness Committee and a fourth-year biology student. Processions from the Court of Sciences, De Neve Plaza and Dickson Court will converge at Bruin Plaza to start out the day's events. Read more...

Espresso Roma Café at the Anderson School of Management shut its doors on Nov. 3 "“ an abrupt closure that caught many students off guard. Read more...

When Christina Soibatian entered UCLA as a first-year, she commuted from home. Read more...

California's Senate took a hundred days to pass the budget, but students in Economics 106A had just 14 days to analyze it. Read more...