After squaring off in a town-hall-style debate last Friday, incumbent President Bush and his Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry, have returned to the campaign trail, both aggressively criticizing the other’s performance. Read more...

Almost exactly a month after rocks shattered the windows of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center in what police called a hate crime, National Coming Out Week begins today, themed “Coming together, Coming out!” This year’s events hold special importance in light of the attacks, said chairperson of the Queer Alliance Paymon Ebrahimzadeh, and are focused on encouraging a positive community and environment. Read more...

One thing has consistently perplexed UCLA students about life in Westwood Village. No, it’s not trying to understand how Diddy Riese cookies are so delicious; it’s the interactive, board game-style Weyburn Avenue art piece, “All Roads Lead To Westwood.” Vic Bamokian, who has owned Weyburn Avenue’s Campus Shoe Repair for more than 10 years, claimed that the public artwork has lined the sidewalks of the street for 10 years. Read more...

The Associated Students of UCLA Services Committee echoed the sentiment of a previous resolution during a meeting Friday in urging that the university’s contract with Taco Bell should be terminated. Read more...

Ask 4-year-old Adam Bustamante what college he wants to go to and he’ll say UCLA. “I’m telling him to say “˜Harvard’ now,” his mom, Misti Bustamante, says with a laugh. Read more...

AFSCME workers have yet to settle on a new contract Union negotiators from the American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees, the union representing the University of California service workers, sat down for three days at UCLA across the table from representatives from the UC, hoping to settle on a new contract. Read more...

Voices of nearly 200 workers, students and union organizers echoed as they entered the corridors of Kerckhoff Hall and walked up and crossed over to the second floor of Ackerman Union. Read more...