It may have been 1:40 a.m., but outgoing members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council were all smiles as they watched their successors being sworn in early Wednesday morning. Read more...

A group of jittery 7- and 8-year-old children filed down the halls of the Public Policy building Wednesday morning, headed in the direction of Professor Shelby Popham’s English Composition 3 class. Read more...

The senate proposal petition is expected to fail to reach the required number of signatures to put it on a special election ballot for a second straight year. Read more...

A University of California report released Tuesday showed that minority representation in faculty does not mirror the state’s population, an issue UC officials say is connected with the problem of declining admissions of underrepresented minorities. Read more...

A few hundred students ““ from the Afrikan Student Union, other underrepresented communities and their supporters ““ marched to Chancellor Albert Carnesale’s office Wednesday in a rally to encourage reform of UCLA admissions policies and to address concerns regarding a lack of diversity at UCLA. Read more...

The cleanest beach may not be so clean. A new UCLA study has shown that even if ocean water tests meet health standards, the sand itself may still be contaminated with bacteria. Read more...

Despite the controversy leading up to Norman Finkelstein’s visit to campus because of his extremist views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Holocaust, the environment surrounding the event was subdued, provoking little visible opposition from students and faculty. Read more...