Iraq ambassador named: President Bush named John Negroponte, the United States’ top diplomat at the United Nations, as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq on Monday and asserted that Iraq “˜”˜will be free and democratic and peaceful.” Bush announced the nomination in an Oval Office ceremony. Read more...

Only two candidates running in the upcoming Graduate Student Association election have significant experience with GSA affairs. Hardly any of the candidates have articulated clear goals or specific proposals. Read more...

In order to preserve academic freedom, the California state senate must reject a Republican-backed bill designed to eliminate perceived biases in higher education. The bill, based largely on conservative activist David Horowitz’s Academic Bill of Rights, would attempt to keep faculty members from being hired or fired because of their politics. Read more...

Correction Appended The Armenian Graduate Students Association is hosting a blood drive today in memory of Armenians killed over the course of two days in 1915. Read more...

Correction Appended UCLA denied a request from the Daily Bruin for information about a Greek system incident, the latest in a series of possible violations of California public records law. Read more...