The decades-old process that the undergraduate student government has used to make changes to its governing laws is written nowhere in its constitution or bylaws and is invalid, a member of the council said at Tuesday night’s meeting. Read more...

UCLA, which was again the most applied-to university in the nation this year, admitted 12,094 students out of a pool of 47,258 freshman applicants, according to data released Wednesday. Read more...

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As April is Sexually Transmitted Diseases Awareness Month, more attention is being drawn to the prevention and treatment of STDs. An estimated 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections occur each year, with almost half of them among people ages 15 to 24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. Read more...

As the campaign for the 2006 Democratic gubernatorial primary gets underway, the issue that most divides candidates Steve Westly and Phil Angelides is proving to be tax policy. Read more...

From the gymnasium of South Los Angeles’ Accelerated School on Tuesday night, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa used his first State of the City Address to deliver his most complete and resounding overture yet for taking over the city’s public schools. Read more...