The U.S. General Service Administration’s proposal to expand the FBI’s Field Office Headquarters at the Wilshire Federal Building continues to meet resistance from residents, local organizations and politicians, as a local coalition has begun to solicit letters from community members. Read more...

African drums dance their polyrhythmic dance and a Javanese gamelan meditates in its eternal cycle. Somewhere in Bulgaria, a women’s choir sends their mesmerizing dissonances ricocheting across the hills. Read more...

The UC Board of Regents plans to hear recommendations today on how it should approach compensation practices in the first of two meetings scheduled for this month to discuss University of California policies. Read more...

Some UCLA professors say they are rethinking their policies on allowing students to tape-record their lectures after a Web site asked for taped lectures as evidence of “radical” professors. Read more...

As the small clouds of white gas pouring out of the bowl grew, so did the crowd surrounding the demonstration table. Fourth-year chemical engineering student Stephen Sass eyed the crowd from behind the table as he emptied the silver ladle full of liquid nitrogen into the bowl, creating larger white clouds and bringing the mixture one step closer to its completed state: ice cream. Read more...

The undergraduate student government voted Tuesday night to adopt single transferable voting for all future elections, with the possible exception of the general election this spring. Read more...

Amid the buzz surrounding the supposed economic advantage of having more Americans able to speak Chinese, a number of students at UCLA are studying the language for a different reason. Read more...