Erica Husse and Omar Qudrat are running for financial supports commissioner in this year’s undergraduate student elections because they want to make it easier for students to focus on their studies rather than on paying for their educations. Read more...

The entertainment industry has found a home within UCLA’s faculty. Barbara Boyle, a producer and president of Valhalla Motion Pictures, will be stepping up as the new chairwoman for the UCLA Department of Theater, Film and Digital Media. Read more...

A recent report by the Competitiveness Task Force made suggestions on how the school can improve its ability to compete with other universities. “How do we become better than we are?” was the agenda, said task force chairman and Executive Vice Chancellor Daniel Neuman. Read more...

The University of California shocked anti-sweatshop activists Tuesday by opposing bills that would require state contractors to certify that they do not use sweatshop labor. The pair of nearly identical bills, AB 1557 and SB 578, were passed by the state Legislature on Tuesday. Read more...

As the undergraduate student government elections head to the World Wide Web for the first time in UCLA’s history, slates find themselves in new territory ““ the likeliness of a larger voter turnout. Read more...

Drivers may have been relieved with the new traffic signal that was added to the crosswalk at Charles E. Young Drive and De Neve Plaza at the end of March, but pedestrians are singing a different tune. Read more...

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has cleared sophomore running back Tyler Ebell from serving as a witness in the trial of three Carson High School students who allegedly raped a female student in De Neve Plaza fall quarter. Read more...