Amid ongoing concern among students and administrators over rising student fees and budget shortfalls, the University of California has assumed an increasingly market-based approach to determining pay for top executives. Read more...

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It would seem that everyone would love a Westwood restaurant offering traditional Cuban cuisine, mojitos and salsa dancing ““ well, everyone except those with an allergic reaction to spicy foods. Read more...

When Kula Koenig was 6 years old, civil war broke out in her home country of Liberia. She and several of her family members escaped northward to Guinea, where she spent almost two years of her childhood battling malnutrition and malaria before being granted admission to the U.S. Read more...

Twenty-eight transgendered men and women are known to have died in the past year as a result of hate crimes. Monday night, students gathered in De Neve Plaza as part of the international Transgender Day of Remembrance in an effort to commemorate their deaths. Read more...

Carolyn Steinwedel is investigating which groups benefit from the electoral college system. Ryan Sears is writing about how contentious issues become aligned with political parties. And Tam Tran is looking at nonlinear storytelling in contemporary literature and albums by Radiohead. Read more...

After a decade-long hiatus, the undergraduate nursing program at UCLA will reopen and expects to begin taking applications for students entering in the fall of 2006, UCLA officials announced Monday. Read more...