Students, parents and staff gathered to celebrate this year’s recipients of the Charles E. Young Humanitarian Award in the Kerckhoff Grand Salon on Monday afternoon. The award is designed “to recognize and promote the value of community service to all forms of education,” said Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Janina Montero, who gave the introductory speech and introduced the recipients. Read more...

Due to what former presidential candidate Josh Lawson believes was unfair treatment during the Undergraduate Students Association Council elections, he filed a case against the Elections Board on Monday to the council’s Judicial Board about sanctions made against Lawson’s slate. Read more...

Students who signed up for summer classes at the University of California were notified over the weekend of a fee increase of 14 percent for undergraduates and 20 percent for graduate coursework. Read more...

What do you think of the Associated Students of UCLA’s decision to keep Taco Bell on campus? Alex Smith Graduate student, mathematics “I do not feel strongly one way or another. Read more...

Controversial festival secures site RENO, Nev. “”mdash; After facing scant opposition, Burning Man organizers have secured a two-year permit to stage the counterculture festival on the northern Nevada desert. Read more...

UC Davis student nominated to regents Adam Rosenthal, a second-year law student at UC Davis, and a UCLA alumnus was nominated to be the student representative to the University of California Board of Regents for 2005-2006. Read more...