Six months after its implementation, a student-initiated fee increase passed last spring seems to have delivered on its promised goals. The PULSE referendum was approved by a majority of voting undergraduate students in May 2005. Read more...

When Laura Willeford went to Powell Library to research a paper last week, she left feeling frustrated. Willeford, a first-year undeclared student, said she had trouble finding useful sources for her art history paper. Read more...

When Mo Kashmiri graduated from the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law in 2004, he left with $130,000 of debt. But as a result of a ruling in his favor Monday, Kashmiri will likely see a few thousand taken off that amount. Read more...

A few years ago, the staff of the student magazine La Gente de Aztlan printed 18,000 copies of each 32-page issue per quarter. Today, La Gente editor Jose Manuel Santillana, a fourth-year Chicano studies student, said his staff can only print 1,000 copies of each issue, which has diminished in size to 16 pages. Read more...

Forget the print edition. For her daily dose of current events, The New York Times Online is Rachel Landis’ homepage. In a technological age, Landis, a Jewish campus service core fellow at the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA, prefers online sources for international and national news coverage. Read more...

Tonight, the graduate composition and theory department will display an experimental array of recently composed new music, showcasing pieces by nine graduate composers in an entirely student-run concert at 8 p.m. Read more...

A majority of 2005’s graduating seniors reported high satisfaction with their overall academic and college experience at UCLA in what was the first comprehensive senior survey. Read more...