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...

Although the new residential plazas ““ Rieber Vista and Hedrick Summit ““ were designed for upper division students, UCLA Housing has had to adjust to an unexpected number of first-year students living in the plazas. Read more...

Not a lot of North Koreans get to travel the world, telling their life story to world leaders. But Kang Chol-Hwan was one of the lucky few to escape the tight grip of the North Korean government, and he is gradually becoming the poster child for an international community aimed at ending North Korea’s human rights abuses. Read more...

Scott Waugh, the dean of social sciences who has served for longer than any other top administrator in the UCLA College, announced this week he will step down at the end of the school year. Read more...

Huey Lin, a Chinese language lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures department, is fighting to get her job back after being dismissed by her department for alleged unprofessional behavior. Read more...

UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale may be leaving his post as the head of the university, but he plans to return to UCLA as a faculty member and sit on the FBI’s National Security Higher Education Advisory Board. Read more...