Diversity requirement essential for UCLA The Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity wishes as strongly as possible to support the implementation of a diversity requirement. We commend the undergraduate council for launching a proposal last year, and we support the efforts of the Academic Affairs Commission to advance a diversity requirement at UCLA, the only University of California campus lacking one. Read more...

The big news story of the last week was that President Bush finally allowed Condoleezza Rice to testify in public about her role in the government’s failure to protect roughly 3,000 of its citizens from perishing on Sept. Read more...

Correction appended Claremont McKenna Professor Kerri Dunn made national headlines when she appeared to be the victim of a hate crime. But it is now said that she may have betrayed the trust of her supporters and students by allegedly staging the crime. Read more...

Spring break began with 14-hour practice sessions for members of UCLA’s mock trial program, and the hard work paid off: One of two teams the program sent to the National Championship Tournament in Iowa this past weekend came home with the national title. Read more...

UCLA’s Transportation Services is fighting two battles to make rental cars available on campus. Flexcar, a program launched Feb. 4 that allows members to rent a car by the hour from a campus location, has experienced low membership levels in the two months since its inception. Read more...