Textbook prices are as outrageous as ever and, as the last year has proven, it will not be an easy battle to reduce book costs. The state Public Interest Research Groups released on Monday a new version of its “Ripoff 101″ report ““ and little has changed since the first report last January. Read more...

As the site of a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. and the shooting of two members of the Black Panthers, black history month has special significance to UCLA. Read more...

Thirty-five years after the appointment of the first black president of a major U.S. university, none of the University of California campuses have yet had a black chancellor. Read more...

Events of misfortune and tragedy sometimes unite people to play dodgeball ““ at least that is the hope of about 11 different campus student organizations that have joined efforts to raise money for tsunami victims through a grade-school pastime. Read more...

The California public education system may soon gain a new adviser through a new council proposed last month. The P-16 council, proposed by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell in December of 2004, would make recommendations to the superintendent based on observations of the current status of the school system, including all grades from pre-school to four-year universities. Read more...

As the investigation continues into a UCLA graduate student’s controversial performance art piece, others are speaking up to defend the student and his Nov. 29, 2004, performance. Read more...

New information regarding security lapses at the Los Alamos National Laboratory has not led the UC Board of Regents to release a decision on whether to submit a bid to continue the lab’s management. Read more...