After 18 months of labor contract negotiations, the University of California declared it is at an impasse with its clerical workers’ union. The UC informed the Coalition of University Employees last week at their last bargaining session that it didn’t think any further movement could be achieved through normal bargaining procedures. Read more...

“No to war, yes to peace, U.S. out of the Middle East,” chanted students gathered in Meyerhoff Park Tuesday afternoon at a student “speak out” against a possible war in Iraq. Read more...

For once, Ricky Manning Jr. looked awfully good in red. At the annual Beat ‘SC bonfire and rally, the UCLA senior football player proudly donned a USC cap before about 1,000 people. Read more...

Taking part in the growing national debate on Iraq, Chancellor Albert Carnesale, UCLA’s resident expert in national security, said in an interview Tuesday that the United States should not go to war with Iraq with the sole objective of removing Saddam Hussein from power. Read more...

Herbert Weiner, professor emeritus at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, died Nov. 12 of lung cancer at his home in Encino. He was 81. Weiner was a psychiatry professor at UCLA from 1982 up until his retirement last year. Read more...