While UCLA prepares to award 11,000 degrees, three students at UC Merced will participate in the university’s first graduation ceremony today. In a room that seats 300, UC Merced plans to award diplomas for the first time ““ to one graduate student and two undergraduate students. Read more...

Going against years of certain commission positions being filled by independent officers, Slate Refund is running candidates for commission positions in this year’s undergraduate student government election, and independent candidates have altered their campaigns in response. Read more...

Editor’s note: Audio clips in this story contain some expletive lyrics. Six-foot-two with freckles and reddish hair, Patrick Williams is not your typical MC. Neither is his friend, dreadlocked Jessica Amisial, a spoken word performer and poet. Read more...

Editor’s note: Audio clips in this story contain some expletive lyrics. Usually quiet after dark, the heart of campus Wednesday night thumped to phat beats as some of UCLA’s finest b-boys and MCs popped, flowed and spit their illest rhymes. Read more...

A truck potentially containing hazardous material is currently being inspected by Los Angeles Fire Department hazardous materials officials, resulting in a number of street closures around campus. Read more...

Chancellor Albert Carnesale, who will be stepping down from his post in June, has been announced as the keynote speaker for the Hippocratic Oath ceremony for the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Read more...

Proponents of converting the undergraduate student government to a senate system are pushing for one last chance to pass the controversial plan this year. Current USAC General Representative Brian Neesby, the author of the proposal, said he is working to gather a few hundred more signatures in order to hold a special election on the senate proposal during ninth week. Read more...