In 1966, Simon and Garfunkel’s sophomoric tune “The Dangling Conversation” asked, “Is theater really dead?” Forty years later, the answer is “yes” to many residents of Los Angeles ““ a city dominated by film and television. Read more...

University of California President Robert Dynes promised reforms of the UC’s compensation practices and apologized for a past lack of transparency during a state Senate hearing in Sacramento on Wednesday. Read more...

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Domestic spying has reached the university level, as students from UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz recently found out. But the dissenting voices of college students is no threat to the nation or the Department of Defense. Read more...

She resigned because she couldn’t do it anymore. She could not go out and explain to the public why the Food and Drug Administration again denied the emergency contraceptive pill over-the-counter status for “bogus reasons.” Tuesday night, students and staff gathered at the UCLA Gonda Center to hear Susan Wood, the former director of the FDA’s Office of Women’s Health. Read more...

UCLA administrators put an end to a student group’s lunch program this week after they determined the group’s activity constituted an illegal sale of food on campus. Read more...

Some of them dance to the rhythm of a song only heard through the headphones of their imagination. Others huddle together on benches and in doorways beneath dirty pieces of cloth, their makeshift blankets. Read more...