After the UCLA faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of retaining the quarter system rather than switching to semesters this past spring, campus officials say the quarter v. Read more...

Wildfires that ravaged Southern California over the past two weeks have burnt a sizeable hole in the state’s pocketbook to go along with more than 750,000 acres of charred land. Read more...

Shelma Jun has been functioning on little sleep this past week. And it’s not because of midterms. Jun, a third-year business economics student, is on the executive board responsible for planning the Model United Nations Summit, which will begin at UCLA today. Read more...

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Top administrators at the University of California said the university may compete for the contract to manage the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the event of the lab being put up for bidding. Read more...

It has now been a little over six months since President Bush declared an end to major fighting in Iraq. Landing Top Gun-style on an aircraft carrier and making his speech in front of a banner proclaiming “mission accomplished,” the event was dramatic, to say the least. Read more...

Where’s God? According to Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court, God needs to be displayed in his courthouse. So he put a 2.5-ton granite Ten Commandments monument in prominent view. Read more...