As the year closes, students are preparing for finals, looking for summer employment and finishing up involvement in extracurricular activities. And with minimal fanfare, some are participating in championship athletic competition. Read more...

What will be the fate of the campus Taco Bell? Why did the Associated Students of UCLA board of directors reverse itself Friday and allow Taco Bell to renew its contract despite allegations of labor abuses in southern Florida tomato fields? Read more...

Marcus Rosner, who was born and raised locally, recalls the Westwood of the late 1940’s, when parking meters on Westwood Boulevard took pennies instead of quarters and his mother would take him to Will Wright’s ice cream parlor on weekends. Read more...

Aside from providing access to e-mail, grades, schedules and events, MyUCLA has been playing an integral role in undergraduate student government by hosting their elections for the past two years. Read more...

“˜Latino’ doesn’t mean illegal alien In response to Ilana Fried’s column “”˜A day without a Mexican’ rings true” (May 20), I don’t think anyone is saying Latinos are a drain on resources. Read more...

Attorneys for defendants accused of raping a UCLA student in 2002 urged the jury to acquit their clients during closing arguments Friday, saying the sexual encounters had been consensual. Read more...

The Nikkei Student Union hosted 34 teams this weekend in the Yuji Ichioka Memorial Basketball Tournament held in Pauley Pavilion. The 12th annual tournament, previously called the “shoot out,” was renamed last year after the death of Asian American activist Yuji Ichioka, one of the founders of the Asian American Studies Center. Read more...