Five students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management stepped outside of their classrooms this month and into the competitive and cutthroat world of marketing. In an annual competition held by the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, business students from across the country competed in the Elite Eight Brand Strategy Competition, meant to test their marketing and strategy skills. Read more...

Eager to use their recently granted financial freedom, many incoming students eventually learn the harsh realities of personal finance during their college careers. With an abundance of credit card offers and instant approval often available, it has become more likely for students to be tempted by credit and eventually get into debt. Read more...

LA residents mourn gang violence victims A mock funeral procession of hearses and cars rolled through South Los Angeles and neighboring cities to mourn those killed in the gang-ridden areas. Read more...

Universities are supposed to be incubators of free speech and creative exploration. But the administration of Arizona State University decided to trample on those freedoms by threatening the student newspaper after it printed a magazine cover depicting a naked breast with a barbell piercing. Read more...

Chancellor Albert Carnesale defended his proposal to double fees while increasing financial aid during a conference Friday, saying it is one of the five options he believes is available to combat the increasingly glum financial situation the University of California faces in the future. Read more...

In early 2003, violence between non-Arab rebel groups and government-supported Arab militias broke out in the Darfur region of Sudan. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead, more than 1.5 million displaced and 200,000 seeking refuge in the neighboring country of Chad. Read more...

TIJUANA “”mdash; Twelve miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, one of Tijuana’s many orphanages sits on a gradual hill, overlooking a landscape lush with beds of green grass and studded with patches of broken-down houses and tire yards. Read more...