UCLA’s Asian Pacific Coalition has begun its fight against the Racial Privacy Initiative ““ which could ban collection of race and ethnic-related data in California ““ more than a year before the measure hits the ballot. Read more...

More than 400 demonstrators wearing and waving blue, yellow and red flags gathered Sunday at the Federal Building to demand the resignation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Read more...

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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...

O ver in Japan where not everyone has Internet access, cell phones take on such desktop duties as e-mailing and even Web browsing. The same is true in Europe, where the wireless network has replaced traditional landlines. Read more...

This year’s freshmen class studied less in high school than any class in at least 37 years, a new UCLA study says. According to a survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, a record-high number of students spent fewer than six hours doing homework their senior year of high school, with 15.9 percent of students reporting they studied less than one hour per week. Read more...