Personal information of approximately 800,000 present and former UCLA students, staff and faculty was compromised after someone hacked into a university database, in what officials say is apparently the largest incident of its kind at a college or university. Read more...

As just about anyone living in Westwood knows, parking in the Village is a nightmare. A parking spot in an all-day zone is a coveted commodity ““ students can be seen spending up to an hour babysitting their cars to make sure they can get a spot after street cleaning is over. Read more...

Eighteen students sit in a classroom and chat as they await the arrival of their teacher Wednesday afternoon. But rather than speaking to each other in English, they are talking in Russian. Read more...

Hundreds of teaching assistants and tutors gathered at several sites across campus last week to vote on whether to give the union authority to call a strike during negotiations in March. Read more...

Starting in January, the city of Los Angeles will begin ticketing North Westwood Village residents for apron parking, the term used to describe cars which are parked in driveways between the street and the sidewalk. Read more...

The van wasn’t rocking and the windows weren’t steamed, but its location in an empty corner of the parking lot and a haphazardly positioned blue sheet in a large side window alerted UCPD Officer Dan Jermansen that there might be some people inside the van who, as he called it, “needed some privacy.” Officer Tom Krueger quickly stopped the patrol car that had been cruising through Parking Lot 11, and both he and Jermansen jumped out, flashlights shining into the van. Read more...

UCLA must reach out to injured USC fan The joy I felt after UCLA’s victory over USC was diminished in the wake of reports of a USC fan who was allegedly beaten by hooligans in Bruin garb, suffering a deep cut to his eyeball in the attack. Read more...