By now virtually every student understands that downloading songs for free from the Internet isn’t legal. And the Recording Industry Association of America’s recent slew of lawsuits against individual people should be enough to make even the most determined Kazaa user in the dorms at least a little nervous. Read more...

Getting a job isn’t easy. Students learn this all too well around this time of year, courtesy of countless rejections by unpaid internships, cheap local restaurants, department stores and more. Read more...

When Professor Denise Mann was a film student, an arts education was a bit narrower than it is today. “I understood a great deal about how movies were made in a hands-on way, but I had no sense of how those experiences related to the complexity of the Hollywood industry,” Mann said. Read more...

I’m oversimplifying, over-dramatizing, and over-Cliffs Notes-ing matters, but it should be noted that orientation tells you pretty much nothing about UCLA. Don’t get me wrong. I loved orientation; it’s still one of my very favorite college memories. Read more...

There’s a better way to catch free movies than downloading, and all it requires is a trip to campus. Sponsored by the Graduate Students Association, Melnitz Movies offers up free screenings of films every school year at the James Bridges Theater. Read more...

While fifth-year World Arts and Cultures student Francine Maigue may have been this year’s Homecoming “Royal Bruin” Queen, it had little to do with how she ended up on TV. Read more...

Perhaps the most defining moment in TV in the past year occurred during the Super Bowl halftime show, but Janet Jackson was nowhere in sight. Following the complaints, fines and media circus that accompanied her breast-baring 2004 performance, CBS played it safe this year with an aging Paul McCartney leading the crowd in a sing-along of “Hey Jude.” He did take off his jacket, but that was just to give to a fan, and he had a shirt on underneath. Read more...