Like many students at UCLA, Jesse Melgar has strong political convictions. But unlike many, he volunteers for a political campaign to make those convictions heard. Melgar, a second-year political science student, works for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides’ campaign. Read more...

Though Coca-Cola and its bottling plants have been officially cleared of all charges in an international labor lawsuit, UCLA officials said they still have not decided what the university’s relationship with the soda company will be in the future. Read more...

UCLA released its final fall enrollment data Tuesday, finalizing figures that have drawn attention nationwide since they were released in May. Though a preliminary report indicated that 95 black freshmen had submitted statements of intent to register, or SIRs, at UCLA, the final count for black students was 103. Read more...

A budget tab that lists a life-size pirate statue, lumber and materials to build a ship, a plank and a waterfall would seem like it would be the shopping list for the set of the next “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. Read more...

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The UCLA admissions process, though moving in the right direction, still has its shortcomings. Despite the Academic Senate’s stated desire to broaden the criteria for admissions beyond academic achievements, the new holistic approach allows for little meaningful evaluation of an applicant’s “life challenges” because it is too subjective. Read more...

Race-based discrimination against blacks may explain the health disparities they experience compared to other racial groups, a recent UCLA report has found. Authors of the study determined that the overall death rate of blacks in the United States is equivalent to that of whites in the nation 30 years ago. Read more...