UCLA students may not see an immediate difference on their BAR accounts, but for the first time the UC Office of the President is imposing a policy requiring 25 percent of money from new student referendums go back to financial aid. Read more...

The U.S. General Service Administration’s proposal to expand the FBI’s Field Office Headquarters at the Wilshire Federal Building continues to meet resistance from residents, local organizations and politicians, as a local coalition has begun to solicit letters from community members. Read more...

African drums dance their polyrhythmic dance and a Javanese gamelan meditates in its eternal cycle. Somewhere in Bulgaria, a women’s choir sends their mesmerizing dissonances ricocheting across the hills. Read more...

The UC Board of Regents plans to hear recommendations today on how it should approach compensation practices in the first of two meetings scheduled for this month to discuss University of California policies. Read more...

Some UCLA professors say they are rethinking their policies on allowing students to tape-record their lectures after a Web site asked for taped lectures as evidence of “radical” professors. Read more...

Correction appended In the world of Internet blogging, where personal entries go uncensored and a great deal of information is shared, an increasing number of journalists and self-proclaimed reporters have jumped on the blogging bandwagon, reporting news in a variety of different locations. Read more...

As the small clouds of white gas pouring out of the bowl grew, so did the crowd surrounding the demonstration table. Fourth-year chemical engineering student Stephen Sass eyed the crowd from behind the table as he emptied the silver ladle full of liquid nitrogen into the bowl, creating larger white clouds and bringing the mixture one step closer to its completed state: ice cream. Read more...