Correction: In “Media impacts Jones’ Web site” (News, Jan. 27), Andrew Jones was misquoted in saying his offer to pay students for information on UCLA professors “may have acted as a cudgel for the overall academic freedom movement.” Actually, he said the offer to pay students may have been a “cudgel against the overall academic freedom movement.” After something explodes, there’s usually a mess to clean up. Read more...

When a study released Tuesday found that ethnic minorities are sorely underrepresented in college coaching positions, we have to admit, we weren’t exactly surprised. Now if only the NCAA would act on the data, that would be a surprise. Read more...

A campaign to change the structure of student government to a senate-based system via a campus-wide special election is underway, following the rejection of the proposal by the Undergraduates Students Association Council Tuesday night. Read more...

Only 38 percent of healthcare workers nationwide received the flu vaccine in 2000, which may indicate an increased risk of transmitting the influenza virus from worker to patient, according to a study released by UCLA and Harvard researchers Tuesday. Read more...

The war in Iraq is a noble cause, a way to plant the first seed of democracy in the Middle East. If the U.S. loses in Baghdad, it will be because Americans at home lost the will to continue fighting. Read more...

Cornered by automobiles, engulfed by the musty air of exhaust fumes and the occasional obstacle of traversing around oil puddles, the UCLA Raas team continues to practice past midnight on the top floor of the Sunset Recreation parking lot. Read more...

As the indie trend sweeps from popular music to the cinema, two corporations are turning indie rock into indie chic. American Apparel, the rapidly growing clothes retailer that opened its Westwood location this past summer, sells its T-shirts wholesale to independent bands. Read more...