Today begins the first full week of classes. Students naturally divide their lives in terms of coursework. The first few weeks are more relaxed; textbooks are tossed to the side and weeknight parties are frequent. Read more...

Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed to raise UC graduate fees by 40 percent, undergraduate fees by 10 percent and cut state funding for student loans and a wide variety of university programs. Read more...

Funeral subject turns out to be alive and jailed NEW ORLEANS “”mdash; When mourners showed up in north Alabama for Finley Christopher Farley’s funeral, they were told that the dearly departed had not departed. Read more...

The fate of an appeal made by the Jewish Student Union for additional funding from the undergraduate student government will be decided this week by the body’s judicial board. Read more...

Fears that California would experience gasoline price hikes and shortages following the phasing out of the additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether are yet to be realized, according to the California Energy Commission. Read more...

California’s uncertain financial future will be somewhat clarified today, with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announcing his new budget for the approaching fiscal year. The new budget comes at a time of crisis for California, with the state facing a $15 billion deficit as well as the recent recall of former Gov. Read more...

Gov. Schwarzenegger pledged to fund the University of California at Merced during his first State of the State address Tuesday in order to have the UC’s 10th campus open in 2005. Read more...