Yet another hotel in Westwood is set to start major renovations, another sign that local way stations are taking a turn for the ritzy and potentially leaving bargain-hunting travelers with scant options. Read more...

If there is ever a good enough reason for guys to wear briefs, it may be found in the official 13-page “Dance Marathon Dancer Survival Guide.” “Gentlemen” participating in the event should do so if they “want to walk properly in the week following the event.” Now in its fifth year, the UCLA Dance Marathon, an annual event that raised $197,000 last year to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, has shown that it is not just your average “one, two step.” From 11 a.m. Read more...

You can see all kinds of unusual things by taking a stroll down Bruin Walk. But anyone who was on campus Wednesday at around noon may have seen something especially alarming: an angry group of white students threatening to lynch a black one. Read more...

Responding to what they claim is a serious threat to the United States, a group of UCLA students has begun circulating a petition “imploring” the government to take action against Iran’s nuclear development. Read more...

As dozens of his peers looked on and jeered him, high school freshman Edgar Gonzalez awkwardly grasped a banana while attempting to slip the blue latex condom over it. Read more...

$3,052,600,815. That is the amount of money the UCLA community accumulated during what officials are calling the most successful fundraising campaign in higher education history. Officially completed in December 2005 after the university had continually raised the bar on donations and gift-giving, final figures from Campaign UCLA, which started in 1995, will be released today. Read more...

Correction Appended The desperate cries of a man with a rope tied around his neck being pulled across campus by a group of white students echoed down Bruin Walk Wednesday afternoon. Read more...