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...

In the kitchen ceiling of law student Katrina Emmons’ Weyburn Terrace apartment, there is a rectangular hole a few inches across and about a foot long. Read more...

The carpets were soaked and there were dozens of holes in the ceiling when medical student Mona Rohit returned to her Palm Court apartment over winter break. Read more...

Ben Hood, an economics graduate student, and Matt Rizk, an engineering graduate student, said they are not surprised by anything that goes wrong in their apartment anymore. Read more...

The first time Akunna Ogbu and Oreoluwa Ogunyemi’s apartment flooded in late August because of a faulty pipe, maintenance workers stripped and sawed one of their walls, tore up their carpets, and ran eight de-humidifiers that were extremely loud and raised the temperature in the apartment. Read more...

Irvine chancellor appointed to academy IRVINE “”mdash; University of California Irvine Chancellor Ralph Cicerone has been elected president of the National Academy of Sciences. Cicerone will start his new job in Washington, D.C., on July 1, leaving the university after 16 years. Read more...