Today, UCLA’s Campus Events Commission will present actor Morgan Freeman with an award to honor his lifetime achievement in drama. This year’s Spencer Tracy Award is the first award to be given since 2000, when Jack Lemmon was recognized. Read more...

In a unanimous decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that universities must allow military recruiters on campus even if schools oppose the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prohibits openly gay people from serving. Read more...

When Laura Willeford went to Powell Library to research a paper last week, she left feeling frustrated. Willeford, a first-year undeclared student, said she had trouble finding useful sources for her art history paper. Read more...

When Mo Kashmiri graduated from the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law in 2004, he left with $130,000 of debt. But as a result of a ruling in his favor Monday, Kashmiri will likely see a few thousand taken off that amount. Read more...

A few years ago, the staff of the student magazine La Gente de Aztlan printed 18,000 copies of each 32-page issue per quarter. Today, La Gente editor Jose Manuel Santillana, a fourth-year Chicano studies student, said his staff can only print 1,000 copies of each issue, which has diminished in size to 16 pages. Read more...

Forget the print edition. For her daily dose of current events, The New York Times Online is Rachel Landis’ homepage. In a technological age, Landis, a Jewish campus service core fellow at the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA, prefers online sources for international and national news coverage. Read more...

A monk who blinded himself in order to resist temptation. Women demand the right to divorce the husbands who abandoned them. The emergence of a 17th-century school of miniaturist painters. Read more...