UCLA student Marina Nazarbekian met with U.S. congressmen earlier this week to lobby for U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide and for favorable U.S. policies toward Armenia. Read more...

Correction appended Karen Kwok, a first-year student who lived in Rieber Hall, died early Tuesday morning at Garfield Medical Center. She was 18. Kwok, who also went by the name Ka Yan, was not feeling well over the weekend and went home on Monday to see her doctor, said Suzanne Seplow, director of the Office Residential Life. Read more...

For all those who think undergraduate fees at UCLA are expensive, be reminded that graduate school costs around three times as much. But benefits reaped and doors opened through graduate school may be worth far more. Read more...

All week, the UCLA campus has been preparing for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Various white tents and booths have been set up, tickets for panels have been distributed at the CTO, and you may have already made plans to attend. Read more...

Eighteen-year-olds get many new privileges on their birthdays. They can buy pornography. They can rent carpet cleaners. They can even buy and fill out lottery tickets. Read more...

Forty students will join UCLA Anderson School of Management Professor Gonzalo Freixes this summer for a new month-long international business law and taxation travel study program in France. Read more...

Panel urges voting machine ban: California should ban the use of 15,000 touch-screen voting machines made by Diebold Election Systems from the Nov. 2 general election, and recommended an advisory panel to Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Thursday. Read more...