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...

Less than a year ago, they were up on stage singing their hearts out. On Saturday, these former members of Random Voices, an on-campus all-female a capella group, were part of the audience, loudly cheering on the performing groups that sang during the fifth annual California A Capella Festival. Read more...

A monk who blinded himself in order to resist temptation. Women demand the right to divorce the husbands who abandoned them. The emergence of a 17th-century school of miniaturist painters. Read more...

In one of the biggest upsets in the history of the Academy Awards, “Crash,” director Paul Haggis’ meditation on racism, won Best Picture over the heavily favored “Brokeback Mountain” on Sunday night. Read more...

The sight of four gray whales off the California coast Saturday morning was the perfect sign for 26-year-old Irwin Sanchez, a day-labor landscaper from New Jersey. Read more...