Imagine having the government forcibly shut down, with imminent elections postponed for months. It sounds like something that would never happen in the United States, but that is exactly what happened to students at Occidental College. Read more...

God reference should be voluntary in Pledge of Allegiance Regarding our Pledge of Allegiance, I respect there are sincere arguments on both sides of the issue. Read more...

UCLA Classics Professor Andrew Dyck pleaded guilty on Friday to two felony counts arising from a series of sexually explicit Internet exchanges with a 13-year-old girl from Simi Valley. Read more...

Students who skate to class might want to think twice, as new signs forbidding skateboarding on campus allow police to cite them now. Signs that read “No Skating or Skateboarding” were put in Bruin Plaza on March 15 by the UCLA Facilities Management Department. Read more...

More applicants to the University of California than originally thought had private information, including their Social Security numbers, displayed to other applicants because of a glitch on a UC application Web site. Read more...

President Bush has pledged to leave no child behind, but higher education may be lagging on his priorities. Bush has continued to fund existing higher education needs such as financial aid and institutional development, but has not devoted the same attention or the publicity given to younger students. Read more...

Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, the director of UCLA Hillel who had taken a voluntarily leave of absence pending an investigation into an alleged assault which occurred in October, returned to work last week. Read more...