While UCLA prepares to award 11,000 degrees, three students at UC Merced will participate in the university’s first graduation ceremony today. In a room that seats 300, UC Merced plans to award diplomas for the first time ““ to one graduate student and two undergraduate students. Read more...

Going against years of certain commission positions being filled by independent officers, Slate Refund is running candidates for commission positions in this year’s undergraduate student government election, and independent candidates have altered their campaigns in response. Read more...

Editor’s note: Audio clips in this story contain some expletive lyrics. Six-foot-two with freckles and reddish hair, Patrick Williams is not your typical MC. Neither is his friend, dreadlocked Jessica Amisial, a spoken word performer and poet. Read more...

Hiking up Bruin Walk, many UCLA students receive a handful of fliers, especially during undergraduate student government election season, and the cost of the casually distributed campaign materials can add up to quite a bit of money. Read more...

Two-year-old Armando Contreras lay asleep in the backseat with his 1-year-old brother as they drove through the Tijuana border point in 1986. Officials checked identification for his aunt and uncle in the front seat, who told the officials that Contreras, now a fourth-year Chicana/o studies student, and his brother were their children. Read more...

In response to complaints of slate bias, representatives of “Bruin News 29″ said the show will not endorse any candidate for external vice president in the ongoing undergraduate student government election. Read more...

UCLA ranked second for research and development spending in the sciences and engineering among universities, according to a recent report released by the National Science Foundation. Read more...