As dozens of his peers looked on and jeered him, high school freshman Edgar Gonzalez awkwardly grasped a banana while attempting to slip the blue latex condom over it. Read more...

Former ambassador Princeton Lyman had one main message for the 30 or so students and faculty gathered in Bunche Hall on Tuesday evening: Africa is becoming more and more central to the U.S., and not just in terms of humanitarian and charity concerns. Read more...

The University of California Board of Regents Investment Advisory Committee met Tuesday at UCLA to review the status of the UC portfolio and in part to provide an update on the status of the Sudan divestment proposal. Read more...

One option for the UCLA community to eat vegetarian lunches on campus came to an abrupt end last week when a lunch program put on by a Hare Krishna monk was shut down by campus administration for violating California law. Read more...

As part of Black History Month, the Black Graduate Students Association will be putting on a dramatic lynching re-enactment today in Bruin Plaza, followed by an art display and panel discussion. Read more...

Though the lights of the Mann Village and Bruin movie theaters will continue to vibrantly flash on the corner of Broxton and Weyburn avenues, the static lights of the Mann National Theatre may soon go dim. Read more...

While some members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council have made concrete progress on keeping their campaign promises, others are still in the planning and research stages of their projects, and have only until spring to fulfill the promises they made to students when they were elected. Read more...