President Bush declared to Congress and the nation that “the state of our union is confident and strong” in a televised speech that outlined the president’s plans for his second term. Read more...

A major water main near the UCLA campus sprung a leak Wednesday afternoon, leaving thousands on campus and across the West Side without water for several hours and rendering tap water undrinkable for at least 48 hours. Read more...

They are the people who keep UCLA running. They clean the bathrooms, serve the food, and drive the buses. But many of them earn less than a living wage and have little possibility for advancement. 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...