Correction appended Footing the bill for a student-athlete’s tuition, books, housing and meals isn’t enough; the NCAA and universities should also be paying for their health insurance and their laundry ““ at least, that’s according to a lawsuit filed against the association. Read more...

In an effort to shore up the promises made in the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, a coalition of organizations and a bipartisan group of state senators have collaborated to produce legislation to ensure access to college for all eligible California students. Read more...

For the next four years, incoming freshmen will be required to take AlcoholEdu, an online alcohol awareness course, UCLA announced Wednesday. As UCLA’s first mandatory alcohol education program, AlcoholEdu is an online class that surveys students’ knowledge of and experiences with alcohol. Read more...

On Feb. 16, Nick Draper, a 7-month-old baby who had been awaiting a heart transplant since birth, continued to fight to live after receiving a new heart in an operating room of the Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA. Read more...

“What’s the point of a revolution, without general, general copulation, copulation, copulation?” belted the cast of “Marat-Sade” at their Friday night rehearsal. Perhaps it’s not the conventional bellowings of college co-eds kicking off a three-day weekend, but this is also not a conventional play. Read more...

Correction appended University of California officials acknowledged violations of UC policy and reaffirmed their commitment to accountability and transparency in compensation practices at a Senate Education Committee hearing Wednesday. Read more...

As elected chairman of the Democratic Nominating Committee and a frontrunner for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, Howard Dean has faced larger, more critical audiences ““ but Wednesday evening he spoke to a UCLA lecture hall filled with student supporters to its 227-person capacity. Read more...