The first people UCLA alum Gene Kim and his wife Faye Wachs spoke to in Los Angeles after surviving the South Asian tsunami in December were the reporters and camera crews who met them at the baggage claim. Read more...

The University of Texas, seen as the University of California’s main potential competitor for the management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, appears likely to drop out of the competition after an announcement made by its chancellor last Friday. Read more...

Worldwide catastrophes often bring out the charitable nature in people, but before donating to relief efforts, many may want to be extra careful. In the weeks following the tsunami disaster, donors are being warned to watch out for con artists and illegitimate charities that watchdog groups say will likely surface. Read more...

Audrey Desiderato had just finished the mask removal drill, one of the many skills needed to receive her scuba diving license, when the tsunami passed through. Read more...

From cramped dorm rooms to faculty offices, sneaky spyware has been surprising the UCLA community without its knowledge. Spyware is the general term for software that can get into a computer without the owner’s consent or knowledge. Read more...

Consumers accustomed to receiving a daily barrage of spam should be wary of a fast-growing scam that can catch even the most Internet-savvy users off guard. Read more...

In this bastion of higher learning and high-minded intellectualism, there exists among the future generation of this country a wide, hilarious streak of anti-intellectualism. It creeps its way to the surface with the preface of “um, like, you know” in the sentences of our after-class socializing, which are usually finished evermore with the post-Gen X trademark 21st-century watchwords “or, whatever.” This unspoken phenomenon can be witnessed in its full documented glory within the safe confines of that campus social underworld of the UCLA online forums. Read more...