Marijuana opponents think we should keep the drug far away from our society. They think legalization would only allow its negative effects to take over. We argue quite the opposite: If we bring pot closer to the mainstream, we will watch many of the problems go up in smoke. Read more...

Bunche Hall was transformed into a center of foreign policy debate Veteran’s Day weekend, as hundreds of high school students in formal attire arrived to attend the 14th annual UCLA Model United Nations Conference. Read more...

UCLA researchers say they have developed a new way to convert salt water to fresh water that will be more cost-efficient than current methods. Eric Hoek, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and his team of researchers at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced Nov. Read more...

Swahili is not the most common language in films, but that is exactly the aspect of the movie industry that Tanzanian director Josiah Kibira wants to change. Read more...

Students, faculty and members of the community gathered together last Thursday to hear a leading scholar defend his unconventional approach to analyzing the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Read more...

There are times when he smokes to help himself study. There are times when he does it to relieve the pain in his knees. Then there are times when Mike uses medicinal marijuana to receive what he says is a smoother, much cleaner high than he can get from the cannabis he could obtain illegally. Read more...

The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved two resolutions Tuesday ““ one in support of making professor evaluations available to students, and the other suggesting that students should be able to switch between two separate chemistry series. Read more...