With U.S. Senate elections coinciding with the presidential election, voters in a number of states, including California, will have the opportunity to elect senators this year. Read more...

University police announced Tuesday they were investigating a possible hate incident that occurred in an Asian American studies class last week. The investigation began after Vu Long Trinh, a teaching assistant in Asian American Studies 20, told police that petitions students in his class signed Thursday supporting the removal of Taco Bell had been vandalized with ethnic slurs and derogatory remarks. Read more...

Disadvantaged students in four Los Angeles high schools have the opportunity to meet one on one with UCLA undergraduates for tutoring and college counseling, thanks to a $75,000 grant from the SBC Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the telecommunications company. Read more...

Perhaps no item on the Nov. 2 ballot is more personal than the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative as the debate over funding for stem cell research pits scientists and researchers against political conservatives and religious groups. Read more...

About 150 people filled a Royce lecture hall Tuesday as three governors from Mexico visited UCLA to discuss what they see as the present and future of Mexico. Read more...

Flags propped up on the Bruin Plaza stage and information tables scattered around the plaza mark the fourth annual South Asian Heritage Week, organized by a group of more than 15 UCLA student organizations with South Asian ties. Read more...

After several attempts to gain department status, the proposal from the César E. Chávez Center in Interdisciplinary Chicana/o Studies remains on the chancellor’s desk because of a disagreement over the proposed department’s name. Read more...