The UC Regents met last Thursday to discuss how they would deal with hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts to the UC system. That same day, UCLA held a press conference to announce the hiring of men’s basketball coach Ben Howland at the hefty price of almost $1 million a year for seven years. Read more...

UCLA faculty’s overwhelming desire to stay with the quarter system was announced Tuesday during the third Legislative Assembly meeting of the year. Forty-six of the 57 departments that submitted reports voted to keep the current academic calendar while only six voted to change to semesters. Read more...

UI is justified, not a contradiction As leader of the United Independents USAC slate, I feel it is necessary to answer the questions raised in Wednesday’s editorial, “LaFlamme’s new slate could raise more conflicts” (April 9), regarding the seeming contradiction between United Independents’ goal to diminish slate influence and the fact that UI is itself a slate. Read more...

On Tuesday, the Undergraduate Student Association Council rejected a resolution supporting the swift return of U.S. troops in Iraq by a 2-8-0 vote. The justification council members gave for rejecting the resolution was its subtle pro-war slant. Read more...

Director and playwright Luis Valdez was honored with the UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Spirit Award for 2003 on Wednesday evening. An accomplished contributor to the Chicana/o movement, Valdez was honored for his work in theater and film, which has advocated Chicana/o rights through the years. Read more...

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Anne Cheung, a first-year psychology student, spent spring break in Hong Kong with her family. Her mother wanted her there to celebrate her twentieth birthday. Cheung wasn’t concerned about severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, until she stepped off the plane and walked onto the streets of Hong Kong, where everyone had on a mask and fear of the virus was rampant. Read more...