He comes off as a hip Hollywood entrepreneur ““ clad in jeans, a sweater and sunglasses ““ and by all accounts, he’s plenty shrewd. In 1971, 25-year-old Peter Morton and a friend opened up a Hard Rock Café in London, never dreaming the restaurant would become a symbol of Americana and that he would sell his chain for $410 million. Read more...

In the words of a famous talking Chihuahua, “Yo quiero Taco Bell.” Indeed, for I suspect I’m not the only who still wants his chalupas. For those who don’t know, activists are fighting to remove Taco Bell from campus because the company buys tomatoes from Florida packing companies accused of unfair labor practices. Read more...

Racist label misguided As one of the bearers of the sign in question, I was appalled by Michael Cox’s letter “Counterprotest sign is unacceptable, offensive” (Nov. Read more...

In January, Charles Lee, a resident of Menlo Park, Calif., was detained upon arrival in China for his practice of Falun Gong, a meditation practice currently outlawed in China. Read more...

A Web technology patent held by the University of California and licensed by Eolas Technologies Inc. will be re-examined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. Read more...

A new energy bill up for vote in the Senate today is opposed by many nationwide environmental coalitions, including the California Public Interest Research Group at UCLA. Read more...

Some students with priority enrollment did not get as much of a priority as they would have liked this past week. To assure that seniors will graduate on time, the economics department closed all of its classes for priority enrollment so seniors would get first priority instead. Read more...