After the UCLA faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of retaining the quarter system rather than switching to semesters this past spring, campus officials say the quarter v. Read more...

For the past two years, UCLA’s various departments have been involved in an ongoing process of re-unitting their courses. The process has coincided with the implementation of stricter expected cumulative progress requirements. Read more...

Although the recent wildfires in Southern California are now considered contained, they have sparked a new fear of increased flooding and landslides. “Any area where the fire occurred will have potential problems for runoff during the upcoming rainfall,” said Mark Savage, captain of the Los Angeles County fire department. Read more...

The Associated Students of UCLA is hoping to appoint an interim executive director by the end of this month, following the resignation of its current leader in late September. Read more...

Top administrators at the University of California said the university may compete for the contract to manage the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the event of the lab being put up for bidding. Read more...

It has now been a little over six months since President Bush declared an end to major fighting in Iraq. Landing Top Gun-style on an aircraft carrier and making his speech in front of a banner proclaiming “mission accomplished,” the event was dramatic, to say the least. Read more...