For fourth-year American literature and culture student Rebecca Buel, brush fires have become a yearly threat to her home. Just days ago, Buel and her family watched from their Simi Valley house as fires raged in the nearby hills. Read more...

Student governments will have a little extra elbow room going into this academic year as the students’ association board of directors passed a motion to re-allocate space within Kerckhoff Hall. Read more...

A task force to review faculty diversity at the University of California began visiting campuses last week, the first step in UC President Robert Dynes’ plan to assess and improve minority representation in the university’s faculty. Read more...

Despite being struck by tragedy recently, with the devastation of the tsunami followed by the assassination of their foreign minister, the American-Sri Lankan community had something to celebrate Sunday night ““ their culture. Read more...

Correction appended A redesign of the funding processes for student groups appears to many to have produced more balanced allocations than in recent years, but some student government members say the fall operational budgets are not quite fair. Read more...

In a room lined with images from around the world, people from across the globe gathered Thursday to hear former deputy president of South Africa Jacob Zuma detail his struggles in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, stress the importance of unity, and speak on the issue of race in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read more...

Moments before the Senate confirmed John Roberts as the next chief justice of the United States in a 78-22 vote on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said the court “will embark upon a new era in its history, the Roberts era.” But just what that era will be like is still unknown. Read more...