In an email sent out to students Monday, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block announced an update to the systemwide policy that governs the UC’s response to incidents and allegations of sexual violence and sexual harassment. Read more...

Reforms to the undergraduate student government elections seem to be headed in the wrong direction more than two months before they’re set to begin. Some members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council and its Election Board discussed bloc voting, among other things, at their meeting Wednesday and tried to come up with ways to combat it. Read more...

After years of allowing Westwood residents’ safety to be compromised, it seems the city of Los Angeles has finally seen the light. At the Feb. 10 meeting of the Westwood Neighborhood Council, City of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services said it has agreed to fund a program that will bring new LED streetlights to the North Village, the student residential area roughly bordered by Gayley Avenue, Strathmore Drive and Veteran Avenue, before the end of the year. Read more...

Gabriel Piterberg, a graduate student adviser and professor in the history department, was accused in a lawsuit last June of sexually assaulting two students, including forcibly sticking his tongue into their mouths. Read more...

The festivities of National Signing Day have become iconic. A teenage high school football player sits at a table with a collection of hats in front of him, each representing a possible college choice. Read more...

After years of taking financial hits, the JazzReggae Festival is a shadow of what it was just a few years ago. This year, the Undergraduate Students Association Council Cultural Affairs Commission has reduced what was a two-day festival with professional artists in 2014 to a five-hour event primarily featuring student performers. Read more...

Last Thursday, news broke that following the multiple breaches in security at UC campuses – including a massive breach in the UCLA Health System which left as many as 4.5 million patients vulnerable – the University of California Office of the President ordered the installation of network monitoring devices in an attempt to avoid future cyberattacks. Read more...