If there is one project that the Undergraduate Students Association Council should stop pursuing, it is its campaign against the Expected Cumulative Progress requirement. The idea of students having a say in academic policies is a good one and should be listened to by the administration. Read more...

The success of service workers in negotiating a contract with the university, and the resurgence of labor activism on campus is undoubtably one of the year’s highlights. Read more...

Amid fresh lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, UCLA is now awaiting subpoenas to be issued which would request the school to turn over information linking the IP addresses to student names. Read more...

Board approves AIDSagency contract The Board of Supervisors approved a nearly $200,000 noncompetitive contract with a nonprofit AIDS agency amid controversy over how the county is doling out its AIDS funds. Read more...

California needs more teachers, and Gov. Schwarzenegger has a plan. But he must make sure the plan is adequately funded, or his proposed “California Teach” program won’t amount to much. Read more...

Jeanne Williams Newsom, former assistant dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, died May 27 after battling cancer for several years. She was 83. Newsom’s stepson, Ted Newsom, said she suffered a “fairly damaging stroke” seven or eight years ago and has been on and off chemotherapy for the past three to four years. Read more...

Graduate student government officials say Congress needs to take action to make student visas more accessible if UCLA wants to continue to attract the best and brightest students not only from California, but from around the world. Read more...