About 1,200 parents, students and faculty members gathered in Ackerman Grand Ballroom on Saturday for the Academic Advancement Program’s Annual Freshman Scholars Day to discuss the benefits of joining the UCLA academic community. Read more...

With or without students, life goes on in Westwood Village. The 10900 west block of Lindbrook Avenue, for example, comes to life early in the morning, as bagel lovers choose from a variety of shmears at Noah’s Bagels. Read more...

The war in Iraq may be over militarily, but the anti-war movement here at home is far from finished. Those who participated in a faculty-led teach-in at UCLA on Friday afternoon argued the war in Iraq is only beginning. Read more...

College students often have enormous credit card bills that only seem to get bigger each month. But they are not helpless in their fight against seemingly inescapable debt. Read more...

As record industry profits continue to fall, and music stores continue to go out of business, record companies have decided to make an example of college students found breaching copyright laws by downloading music. Read more...

Now that the fighting in Iraq has drawn to a close, the difficult task of rebuilding a broken society must begin. The United States has two options in the current situation: It can rebuild Iraq unilaterally, sewing seeds of hatred and instability that will ultimately endanger U.S. Read more...

Sallie Mae, provider of one-third of all federally insured student loans, discovered last week that it had been under-billing some of its loan recipients and raised the monthly payments on these loans from 25 to 40 dollars per month. Read more...