On Friday, UCLA's Faculty Executive Committee heard the humanities department's proposed area budget reductions that must be met for the 2010-2011 academic year. Read more...
Westwood is crumbling. Read more...
The tragic death of Agustin Roberto "Bobby" Salcedo, 33, in Mexico on New Year's Eve raises several important questions: Why, for instance, do we wait until something horrific like this occurs to honor those who have accomplished so much? Read more...
Back in November, the word on everybody's lips was "˜regent'. "The regents are raising our fees!" "The regents don't care for students!" "The regents changed the date to avoid students and protests!" There was a lot of talk about what they were doing, but barely any talk about who the members of the UC Board of Regents are. Who are they? How did they become regents? And who told them they could run the University of California, and all of its 220,000 students? Read more...
President Barack Obama's new, generous NASA budget recently drew praise from none other than "Avatar" director James Cameron, who worried that national budget woes would see space exploration "fall off the priority list." Read more...
Like the making of a sequel to an already bad movie, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to privatize and build prisons in Mexico for undocumented inmates is beginning to sound like we're in for "Guantanamo Bay: Part II" starring the Governator himself. Read more...