College is supposed to be about learning, hard work and a social life. But if you are a gamer, you probably set aside some time this week to check out two new mega-blockbuster video games ““ “Halo 2″ and “Half-Life 2.” But as long as you didn’t sleep through your mid-terms or forget to call your friends back, that’s OK. Read more...

Sitting in the living room of his Hollywood Hills home Wednesday morning, English Professor Lawrence Grobel gushes about a course he teaches on interviewing. He pulls four books on the subject from a nearby shelf and piles them onto a table. Read more...

The coffeehouses of eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe were places where the embers of revolution were stoked. The coffeehouses of twenty-first century Westwood are places where a bit of flirting, some gossiping and maybe a little studying are done. Read more...

The formation of the stem cell research oversight commission mandated by the passage of Proposition 71 began last week as the University of California made six appointments to the Independent Citizens Oversight Commission. Read more...

UCLA’s normally bustling campus seems eerily quiet at 9 p.m. on a foggy Friday night. Its 36,000 students have all left for the weekend and signs of life are few. Read more...

Amanda “Mandy” Hafleigh, a second-year American literature student, died last Thursday night in her room on the third floor of Dykstra Hall in what police say is an apparent suicide. 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...