More student organizations will soon be able to apply for office space in Kerckhoff Hall as the Office Space Allocation Committee will open up the application process. Read more...

In the aftermath of the shootings that occurred at Virginia Tech earlier this week, the University of California is now re-evaluating its own security policies. Authorities have been quick to assure the UCLA community that they are doing everything they can to assess current security measures, as well as to actively continue to seek out ways to improve safety. Read more...

Julio Rodriguez said he was once walking with a group of friends when someone shouted “faggot” at them. The incident showed Rodriguez, who said he identifies as queer, that there is still a need for awareness of hate crimes, said Rodriguez, president of the Queer Alliance at UCLA. Read more...

Brendan Duffy said he used sandbags to protect his little bunk from incoming rocket fire at night, which also happened to make a bookshelf for the math textbook, novels and magazines he read while stationed in Iraq, much to the amusement of his fellow soldiers. Read more...

Once called “the leading nonviolence theorist in the world” by Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. James Lawson plans to speak on campus today at a discussion and later at the 2007 Thurgood Marshall Lecture and Dinner on Law and Human Rights. Read more...

A state appeals court unanimously ruled Tuesday against a law designed to give Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa substantial personal control over the Los Angeles Unified School District. Read more...