Between telling jokes and sharing stories, the guitarist, bongo drummer, flutist and two fiddlers of the student band Barghest fill the room with a unique fusion of traditional Irish, Scottish, English and Celtic music during their practice every week. Read more...

The recent launch of a new nanoelectronics institute at UCLA marks the beginning of one of the world’s largest joint-research programs dealing with the emerging field of spintronics, in which researchers hope to find ways to make everyday electronics require significantly less power to operate. Read more...

Reacting to worldwide protests and acts of violence over controversial Danish cartoons, the UCLA Muslim Students Association held an event Friday evening explaining a Muslim perspective on the situation. Read more...

The Undergraduate Students Association Council plans to vote Tuesday on proposed revisions to the Election Code, one of which would implement a new voting system designed to eliminate runoff elections. Read more...

At its March 10 meeting, the Associated Students UCLA Board of Directors met with Coke Free Campus, the student coalition seeking the removal of Coca-Cola products from campus, to hear the group’s complaints regarding Coca-Cola’s alleged mistreatment of workers in Columbia. Read more...

In a decision that some have called a victory for students, a court ruling last week ordered the University of California to pay back fee increases to certain professional school students who say the increases violated a contract they had with the UC in the amount of more than $33.8 million. Read more...

Demetrius Greene said he learned even cancer can be the catalyst to make you stronger. Greene had only completed his first year in college before a rare form of Hodgkin’s disease, a type of cancer, caused him to temporarily lose the use of his legs and left arm. Read more...