Though the proposed federal budget provides for an overall increase in financial aid for higher education in 2006, individual students may experience a decrease in their financial aid package in the coming year. Read more...

Three days before his deadline to decide where to attend graduate school, economics student Ben Hood said he visited UCLA and was guaranteed housing ““ a perk that made his decision slightly easier. Read more...

Japanese international student Takashi Kawashima had big plans for his move to the United States. Kawashima was set to begin his graduate studies in September at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts, but first he wanted to spend the summer traveling around the United States. Read more...

Today marks the first day of the year of the rooster for the Chinese community and begins an over two-week period of celebrations and family reunions. Read more...

Executives of the five University of California medical centers received bonuses last October, while full-time worker positions are expected to be dropped in the face of the hospital’s negative income. Read more...

Groups opposed to the Bush administration’s policies abroad and at home held an “Hour of Resistance” at Bruin Plaza on Tuesday in an attempt to rekindle the flame of student activism against the war. Read more...

Ryan Enos, a political science graduate student, had his toilet fixed four times, but it kept stopping up. Whatever the UCLA maintenance people did, plunging or pouring hot water down the toilet would only work temporarily. Read more...