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...

Walking by construction sites scattered across campus, students may be more likely to wonder how their path to class will be blocked than what the magnitude of costs involved in the projects are. Read more...

The Westwood Village Community Alliance met Wednesday to discuss the results of its audit, released Tuesday, with local community organizers and merchants. The private auditing firm Cannon and Company was hired to audit the WVCA, the title maintained by the previous Business Improvement District, for the three fiscal years in which it failed to audit itself. Read more...

As U.S. tanks rolled through Baghdad in what looks to be the last phases of the Iraqi war, a group of UCLA students and community members were already gathering with a renowned Middle East expert to discuss its aftermath. Read more...

Laughter outweighed tears Wednesday as students, faculty, administrators and family members remembered Cynthia Rabuy, who died last week in a traffic collision at the age of 23. Read more...

Even die-hard fans of Street Fighter are abandoning the arcade scene on campus and picking up the hand-held game controllers at home. X-Cape, UCLA’s arcade in Ackerman Student Union, has been no exception to this downward trend, as students lose interest in the games that typically cost a quarter each. Read more...

Proposed cuts to the University of California’s research budget could undercut development of new technology that drives the state’s economy. UC officials are using this logic to try to convince state officials to spare the university from suffering further reductions. Read more...