With the school-free season of summer approaching, students are deciding how to use the sunny days ahead as efficiently and effectively as possible.  But while initial inclination for students might be a temporary retail job for some quick cash, seeking out and seizing an internship opportunity can prove more beneficial in the long run, according to the UCLA Career Center. Read more...

The first round of Undergraduate Students Association Council elections may be over, but the second round, starting tomorrow, will be nearly as important ““ six positions out of 13 remain undecided. Read more...

Sincere negotiation, respect and cooperation must prevail in order for there to be peace in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said speakers at the United 4 Freedom panel held last Thursday. Read more...

Finances are running dry for third-year transfer student Maureen Brackey. Family-related medical problems, a traffic collision and a terminated scholarship have deteriorated her financial stability ““ and now she worries summer school fees will break the bank. Read more...

The Anderson School at UCLA’s largest student-run event attracted a crowd of about 300 who listened Friday to speakers and panelists who discussed the challenges of entrepreneurship. Read more...

Students who expect to be atop the next wave in corporate America once they graduate will engage in extreme competition with their peers ““ those who have already put in gear their enterprising dreams and have decided to pursue their business ventures now. Read more...

Less than a week before Gov. Gray Davis is expected to announce deep budget cuts statewide, former California State Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg declared that the current state budget crisis is “a political crisis, not a financial crisis.” In a lecture titled “California’s Crisis: Budgeting in a Strait Jacket,” Hertzberg briefly discussed possible solutions to the crisis to a mixed audience of businessmen, city councilmembers and students. Read more...