Due to concerns expressed by faculty members and the university’s changing economic climate, the UCLA College’s late drop policy may be changed to prevent students from dropping courses after fourth week. Read more...

An old and venerable institution of the U.S. Government, Social Security has recently come directly under the political spotlight, with many believing that it requires significant reform. Read more...

Though most students probably would be bored listening to a lecture about Social Security reform, professors and students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management were intrigued by the findings of a Yale professor on the subject. Read more...

Financial experts tend to agree that if reforms are made early to Social Security, there will be a lesser degree of impact on current youth. Social Security at the end of 2004 sustained 48 million beneficiaries and covered 159 million workers and their families, according to the recently released 2005 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees. Read more...

Current events in the Israel-Palestine region may once again slip into the campus limelight this week with a series of events that are intended to illuminate the humanity and the plight of the Palestinian people. Read more...

The Laker Girls attracted attention. So did former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan. But Saturday morning, a huge crowd gathered at Drake Stadium not just to see the Laker Girls perform or to hear Riordan speak, but to celebrate a small group of people who had one thing in common: They were all cancer survivors. Read more...