Cathy Schulman does not hesitate to say which film festival she prefers over all others. “There’s nothing I love more than Sundance,” said Schulman, who teaches in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s producers program. Read more...

A California public high school agreed this week not to teach intelligent design, the latest in several California legal cases addressing the place of intelligent design in public schools. Read more...

A Web site purporting to expose “UCLA’s radical professors” and offering students cash payouts in return for information about their classes was thrust into the national spotlight Wednesday after a barrage of media coverage. Read more...

SAN DIEGO “”mdash; Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante both made rare appearances at the UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday, during which the governor discussed buying out the UC student fee increases planned for next year and the board adopted a new salary structure for university employees. Read more...

After spending fall quarter at UCLA, University of New Orleans graduate student Wes Harris, studying film and television, decided to stay at UCLA for the remainder of the year because his New Orleans apartment is currently occupied by a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Read more...

When Andrew Bokarius began working at a neuroscience laboratory this summer, the thought of retirement was distant. Bokarius took the job to get research experience and explore what it would be like to work in a research lab. Read more...

In a bipartisan and unanimous decision, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted Tuesday to conduct a “comprehensive review” of the University of California’s compensation practices. In a review that will likely be completed within a couple of months, the Audit Committee will look at salary schedules for UC employees, the way certain pay raises are decided upon and how different compensation packages are put together, said Richard Stapler, spokesman for Assembly Speaker and Ex-Oficio Regent Fabian Núñez who requested the audit. Read more...