While most in the United States were celebrating the holidays with friends and family, hundreds of thousands faced the violence of nature’s waves. In a single moment, nearly 160,000 lives were lost and an entire region of the world was forever changed. Read more...

UCLA was sued on Monday by a former doctoral student on grounds of civil rights violations, because as a white woman, she claims she was discriminated against when she proposed a thesis topic about white women. Read more...

The threat of toxic fumes in Engineering IV caused the UCLA South Campus building to be evacuated early Sunday afternoon, but an ensuing investigation found no harmful materials. Read more...

It has been more than six months since the elected officers of the undergraduate student government have taken office, and while they are working together to fulfill council goals, individual officers also have work ahead of them as they set out to complete their individual promises. Read more...

In its final stages of becoming an official policy, the proposal for a diversity requirement was rejected as faculty members of the UCLA College voted against it. Read more...

The UCLA School of Law is increasingly looking to private donors to compensate for recent cuts in state funding and may ask the university for increasing autonomy over those funds in the coming years. Read more...

When Mario Perera’s mother left the United States for their home country of Sri Lanka on Dec. 23, Perera had no obvious reason to fear for her safety. Read more...