Thinking back to 20 years ago, it’s the splashing in yellow rainwater that Antonina Sergieff vividly recalls. The third-year graduate student didn’t know it then, but the unnatural color of those puddles in her hometown of Gomel, Belarus were due to radioactive particles spewing from a nuclear explosion 80 miles away. Read more...

Monica Sanchez Rivas was named the 2006-2007 Graduate Students Association president Tuesday night, beating her opponent, Anthony Dunbar, by 37.4 percent. The other three positions on the ballot were uncontested. Read more...

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Correction appended This one seems destined to fizz out. A group of students under the name Coke-Free Campus have been protesting against the Coca-Cola Company for alleged human rights violations against its workers in Colombia. Read more...

As details continue to surface regarding the excesses in University of California executive compensation, a new report shows faculty salaries at colleges and universities across the nation have been taking hits in recent years. Read more...

UCLA will offer a new intensive language program this summer that will use Los Angeles’ language-rich community in teaching students to speak, read and write. The program, “Language Intensives in L.A.,” will feature classes in seven tongues: Spanish, Arabic and Russian, along with Amharic, spoken in Ethiopia, Catalan, spoken around Barcelona in Spain, and Swahili and Yoruba, spoken in Tanzania and Nigeria, respectively. Read more...

Working in a tradition of trailblazers, it is not hard to see why environmentally conscious students on campus can turn Earth Day into Earth Week. Contributing to a grassroots movement over 35 years old, students are taking advantage of the whole week to share facts about current policy issues and educate others about water conservation and environmentally friendly practices. Read more...