In the past three years, Bush administration officials have mentioned “Iraq” and “democracy” so often in the same breath you would think they knew what they meant. Read more...

The video feed was jerky and the sound was sometimes low, but for Luisa Martínez, it was an experience to be remembered. Martínez, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student, was one of about 15 members of the UCLA Community who came to the Anderson School of Management Friday to participate in a video conference with Felipe Calderón, a Mexican politician who recently won a primary election to be a candidate in Mexico’s 2006 presidential election in July. Read more...

A new California state bill, which will go into effect January, will make the possession of any material for the use of making false IDs a crime. Read more...

Drew Olson described it as the best bonfire he’s seen in his four years at UCLA. Standing on a stage overflowing with members and coaches of the UCLA football team, Olson swung a blue T-shirt in the air as hundreds of blue-and-yellow-clad fans in Wilson Plaza cheered, screamed and chanted “Beat ‘SC.” The large turnout at Thursday night’s Beat ‘SC Parade, Bonfire and Rally, a part of Blue and Gold Week, was reflective of the massive hype surrounding this Saturday’s football game against No. Read more...

Katherine Baicker was appointed as an associate professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs in July, but before she could step into the classroom, she was presented with an offer she could not refuse. Read more...

It’s more than just yearlong bragging rights. More than just quips of who’s better than whom. The key to the city is at stake. The magnitude of the crosstown rivalry is only known to a select few.It’s Texas and Oklahoma, Army and Navy, Florida and Florida State, Alabama and Auburn, Ohio State and Michigan. Read more...

As guitar music coincided with African drumbeats, students from all over campus came together in Bruin Plaza on Thursday, aiming to spread knowledge about HIV/AIDS. The Student Welfare Commission, along with many other student groups, hosted World AIDS Day, an event designed to educate people about HIV/AIDS in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease both on campus and abroad. Read more...