A solitary spacecraft 750 miles away orbits Saturn, gathering information about the giant planet’s moons, rings, atmosphere and magnetic field that may help scientists recreate the formation of the solar system and the origins of life on Earth. Read more...

Ten years after genocide in Rwanda left 800,000 dead, a new film about one of the heroes who rose from the tragic event was screened at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills in conjunction with the UCLA African Studies Center. Read more...

CALPIRG pledge week begins Members of the California Public Interest Research Group will begin the group’s quarterly campaign of collecting $5 pledges from students throughout the week. Read more...

A flurry of reports have detailed how an “unimpressive” youth population “didn’t rock” the vote last Tuesday. All cited a statistic claiming the proportion of 18- to 29-year-olds voting this year was about the same percentage as in 2000. Read more...

Tens of thousands of students pass by the Fowler Museum every day on their way to and from class, but not many attend the exhibits. Students who can actually locate the off-campus Hammer Museum probably don’t know the museum hosted a reading by David Foster Wallace last Friday and Jonathan Franzen is scheduled to speak in December. Read more...

A divided country begets a divided home. President Bush’s close victory over Sen. John Kerry Tuesday served to highlight the political rift gripping the nation and my apartment. Read more...

With the crunch of midterms, finding time to write that history paper or analyze that Shakespeare poem may seem like an impossible feat. But students will want to think twice before running to the Internet to download a paper in times of desperation, as UCLA renewed its license this year for the commonly used online anti-plagiarism service, Turnitin.com. Read more...