President Bush proposed comprehensive reforms in the Pell Grant program last week to finance a new grant program for college students studying math and science, causing some higher education organizations to be concerned about the initiative’s scope and cost. Read more...

Sarah Tin, coordinator of CALPIRG’s hunger and homelessness relief program, looked to both a fellow volunteer and a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian for inspiration to lead nearly 100 college and high school students to combat hunger and homelessness in the Los Angeles area Saturday, during the organization’s 20th annual Hunger Cleanup. Read more...

Palestine Awareness Week starts today on campus, with different events planned through Thursday. The week will include presentations by professors, journalists and others who have visited this contested area of the Middle East. Read more...

If you’ve ever taken an organized tour in a foreign country, you will remember the ubiquitous bubbly flag-waving guides who unfailingly skip the bad restaurants, ignore the shady neighborhoods, and use an English name to put their followers at ease. Read more...

Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss agreed last week to meet with Westwood community leaders to discuss developer Alan Casden’s proposal to close part of Glendon Avenue for up to one year, but many say Weiss has been largely unresponsive to Westwood Village’s concerns about the $100 million project. Read more...

Hundreds of protesters are expected to gather today at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to protest the lab’s nuclear weapons research. The University of California runs the Livermore lab, which has been the site of protests for over 20 years. Read more...

Residents of Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles and its surrounding communities are being forced to travel farther to seek care for life threatening health problems after the closure of Century City Hospital emergency room Monday. Read more...