The caliber of the University of California will decline as it struggles with the state budget crisis, the university’s senior budget administrator said Thursday. “I do not want to suggest to you that quality will not be eroded. Read more...

On Dec. 10, 1999, the disappearance of a student living on campus shocked the UCLA community. Three years later, detectives say there is still no sign of Michael Negrete’s whereabouts. Read more...

Smiling from ear to ear, Ben Howland was formally introduced as the UCLA head men’s basketball coach on Thursday. The 45-year-old Southern California native glowed as UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero made the formal announcement in front of a horde of broadcast media, print media, boosters, UCLA administrators and Howland’s family in the J.D. Read more...

UCLA suffered a tragic loss with the death of Cynthia Rabuy, a highly respected and revered student leader who was killed Wednesday night in a traffic collision. Read more...

Empowerment! is consistent I am writing in response to the editorial, “Slates should focus on ideas, not elections” (April 2). As a member of Student Empowerment! Read more...

UCLA is a large enough campus that any student who wishes to do so, can remain invisible, inactive and self-interested, unscathed. That was not Cynthia Rabuy. Read more...

Bowling for Columbine” director Michael Moore has received a lot of press lately because he referred to Bush as a “fictitious president fighting a fictitious war” when he accepted an Oscar last Sunday. Read more...