Three Carson High School students suspected of the alleged rape of a UCLA student during a campus visit in December will be prosecuted as adults, the District Attorney’s office announced earlier this week. Read more...

Though management at the Los Alamos National Laboratory may not have engaged in an actual cover-up attempt, lab officials did not act correctly amid allegations of theft and missing equipment, according to a Department of Energy report released Thursday. Read more...

I’m on the UCLA men’s crew team, and I’m telling you, big things could happen this year. We’ve got the right combination of dynamic coaches and stellar athletes ““ now all we need is a few new boats and oars, a couple new rowing machines, an assistant coach or two, and we seriously could go all the way!  Unfortunately, we just can’t afford it. Men’s crew lost its funding a decade ago and has only survived because of the generosity of alumni and the enormous dedication of its coaches and team members. I, along with every male rower, swimmer, diver, gymnast and wrestler at UCLA, am a victim of Title IX. Read more...

Herczog misplaces concern I am writing in response to Stephanie Herczog’s letter “Homeless on campus a problem,” (Jan. 29). Herczog wrote that a homeless man found dead on campus is a sign that we have a homeless problem, and that “it is time for someone to take control of this issue.” Did Herczog miss that the man may have died because of “suspicious circumstances?” She only wrote, “Finding one of them dead on campus is the last straw,” in the same way she might describe finding a dead squirrel on Bruin Walk. Read more...

Less than a month after making the results of the first Undergraduate Students Association Council survey public, David Dahle and the Students United for Reform and Equality general representatives are compiling a second one. Read more...

Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy, of Massachusetts, will introduce a measure aimed at retracting the wide latitude Congress gave to President Bush earlier this year in using military force against Iraq. Read more...

What were your reactions to President George W. Bush’s State of the Union speech? Gabriel Valentin Third-year, political science “The president sent a very clear message of his intentions for the year and I agree with what he said about Iraq posing a threat to our country. Read more...