As UCLA’s identity-based newsmagazines have moved from origins of charged advocacy toward demonstrating personal culture, they find themselves working harder to retain their influence and sway on campus. Read more...

Achieving both independence and financial stability has been been a tricky beast for many nationwide college media outlets, and UCLA is among those working to retain its autonomy and still turn a profit. Read more...

Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn will join Barbara Johns via a live telephone call at 1 p.m today to lead an anti-war teach-in the Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom. Read more...

Speaking on campus and drawing students of various religions and sexual orientations, the first openly gay member of the Israeli parliament explained his belief that being openly gay in Israel is more socially accepted than in the United States. Read more...

Is Big Brother watching you? According to many librarians around the nation, the answer is a resounding “Yes.” Provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act that would allow the FBI to access library records to aid investigations have drawn outcries from the American Librarians Association, which is afraid that the government is violating First Amendment rights. Read more...

Zwan “Mary, Star of the Sea” Reprise/Warner Bros. Hey, remember the Smashing Pumpkins? No, not that bizarre mumu-wearing gothic melodrama factory that put out “MACHINA/The Machines of God.” I’m talking about the real Pumpkins, the band that rocked our 13-year-old lives with jangly-guitared anthems like “Today,” “Mayonaise” and “Tonight, Tonight.” Well, there are those of us who haven’t forgotten them, one of whom seems to be Billy Corgan himself. Read more...