DRUG CONVICTION STATISTICS FOR FINANCIAL AID ELIGIBILITY A new question on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid asks students if they’ve ever been convicted of drug possession or trafficking. Read more...

By David Drucker Daily Bruin Reporter College students and other twentysomethings will head to the polls Tuesday and join older Americans in voting for the next president of the United States. Read more...

  DAVE HILL/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Hector Perla, a political science graduate student who helped erect the crosses in the background, camped out on the steps of Kerckhoff Hall Wednesday night in case administrators decided to remove the display. Read more...

By Monique Simpson Daily Bruin Reporter For many UCLA students, Nov. 7 will be an historic day as they cast their first presidential vote. But for Daniel Wong, a first-year undeclared student at UCLA, it will just be another day of going to class and studying. Read more...

  DAVE HILL/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Former President Jimmy Carter speaks about world peace to a full Royce Hall Wednesday evening after receiving the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor, from Chancellor Albert Carnesale. Read more...

By Barbara Ortutay Daily Bruin Senior Staff An assistant engineering professor and his family are among the survivors of Singapore Airlines flight SQ006 that crashed in Taipei before takeoff Tuesday. Read more...

Photos by CLAIRE ZUGMEYER Groups of women dance in concentric circles as they perform a traditional Garba dance in the Navratri celebration. About 1,200 people celebrated in Ackerman Grand Ballroom Friday night. Read more...