Tucked away in a red brick building in the middle of North Campus are classrooms with turquoise-colored walls, winding staircases and machines that seem to make just about anything. Read more...

An artist who performed at Monday’s reggae festival has prompted complaints by members of the gay and lesbian community over a song the artist wrote that advocated shooting gay men. Read more...

About a week before Mother’s Day, the fifth-grade students of Lindi Williams’ classroom are painting pastels of pink, blue and yellow onto egg cartons. The project will soon be planted with soil and flower seeds to be given to their mothers. Read more...

Preliminary results from UCLA’s “Get Legal” campaign indicate that although students have begun to use the program, it has gotten off to a slow start. Get Legal, a program designed to combat online media piracy, involves a one-year agreement with digital-media vendors CDigix, iTunes and Mindawn, to provide UCLA students with legal avenues for obtaining entertainment media. Read more...

The Graduate Students Association wrapped up its last meeting of the year and swore in its recently elected officers on Wednesday night. Outgoing GSA officers discussed the continued efforts to validate the graduate student writing center referendum, which would add $3 to quarterly graduate student fees to help fund a center to assist students with writing and presentation skills. Read more...

Los Angeles County officials filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army on Wednesday to stop the proposed land swap of a 10-acre parcel of property located adjacent to Westwood. Read more...

Tami Vuong, a 2005 UCLA alumna, stepped anxiously last fall into the South Bronx, New York elementary school that would be her Teach For America school for the next two years. Read more...