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About a dozen people were infected with the anthrax virus in 2001, but 30,000 people were placed on antibiotics and 200,000 laboratory tests were performed as a result. Read more...

Britain, not America, should leave its cave I am not a fan of opera, art films or “War and Peace.” Instead, I wallow in the banality of pop music, “Star Wars” and “Newlyweds.” But I do think I am intelligent enough to respond to Matthew Kennard’s column about America (“America must abandon cave of delusion,” 11/16). Read more...

As students scramble to finish mid-terms and turn in papers, their eyes are on one goal: Thanksgiving break. But students would be more focused, and less stressed, if Thanksgiving break were an entire week. Read more...

LA residents mourn gang violence victims A mock funeral procession of hearses and cars rolled through South Los Angeles and neighboring cities to mourn those killed in the gang-ridden areas. Read more...

Universities are supposed to be incubators of free speech and creative exploration. But the administration of Arizona State University decided to trample on those freedoms by threatening the student newspaper after it printed a magazine cover depicting a naked breast with a barbell piercing. Read more...

Chancellor Albert Carnesale defended his proposal to double fees while increasing financial aid during a conference Friday, saying it is one of the five options he believes is available to combat the increasingly glum financial situation the University of California faces in the future. Read more...