The Associated Students UCLA board of directors voted on Friday to change its textbook policy with a reduction in prices and the implementation of both a rental program and a price match guarantee. Read more...

With speculation that University of California employees could be affected by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's statewide salary-cutting measure, UC President Mark Yudof released a statement Friday which said that the UC will make every effort to ensure employee salaries are paid at current state levels and that talk of pay cuts was premature. Read more...

UCLA was awarded a plaque by the volunteer group Peace Corps last week for being one of the universities with the largest number of former students joining the organization. Read more...

Jesse Melgar, the current external vice president of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, was elected as the chairman of the University of California Students Association at their meeting, held in Berkeley from July 10 to 13. Melgar has served extensively in student government as the external vice president for USAC last year and again for this year. Read more...

The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was ranked third in the nation, and for the 19th consecutive year, the best in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report's annual survey of "America's Best Hospitals" in its July 21 issue. Read more...

When Eliana Duffy, 3, asks her mother where her father is, Sarita Duffy, a student at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, tells her that he's "far away, fighting bad guys." Read more...