Man sues after being locked in toilet NORFOLK, Va. “”mdash; William Tremmel, 68, needed to go. Badly. So he dashed to the nearest portable toilet on the Virginia Beach boardwalk. Read more...

She led one of the country’s largest student enterprises from the brink of bankruptcy, and after seven years, Patricia Eastman will be stepping down from the helm of the Associated Students of UCLA. Read more...

A television ad titled “No on Prop. 54,” which started airing Sept. 16 and will conclude its run today, was funded by $3.8 million from California Lt. Read more...

I don’t mind commercials. I accept that the price of my entertainment is approximately 8 minutes of advertising during any given 30 minutes of viewing. I don’t mind magazine ads. Read more...

The chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, Robert Berdahl, announced he would be retiring from his position this June to take a year off from academia and then return to Berkeley as a professor of history. Read more...

Criticism of HBO misdirected Sorry, but I think the column (“HBO’s barrage of marketing adds up to brainwashing,” Sept. 21) was misdirected. Surely you can find a better example of network self-promotion than HBO, a premium cable network that relies on subscribers. Read more...

What did you think about the gubernatorial debate? What was your impression of the candidates’ conduct? Jesse Robinson Third-year, art “Other than the personal attacks, I think the candidates had a pretty good understanding of the issues. Read more...