While debate swirls among liberal groups over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito’s avowedly conservative views on such controversial issues as abortion rights, considerably less attention has been paid to his prior rulings on issues relevant to universities and university students. Read more...

After an $18 million renovation and many unexpected delays, Glorya Kaufman Hall opened its doors to the public this quarter, offering new classroom space, performance venues and lounges to students and faculty on campus. Read more...

More than 800 students have volunteered to wake up early this Saturday and put in a day of work at community service sites around Los Angeles. Read more...

UCLA Housing has decided that on-campus room sign-up dates will be moved up at least a month to the end of winter quarter, eliciting a litany of concerns about the change from student representatives. Read more...

As pungent incense spiraled up into the evening sky, dancing UCLA students with painted faces celebrated the lives of their loved ones who have died. Every element of the event, from the incense ““ called “kopal” and native to Mexico ““ to faces half-painted in the image of skeletons, UCLA students and alumni celebrated Día de los Muertos, the traditional Mexican holiday devoted to the dead. Read more...

New members of the Greek system filed into the Ackerman Grand Ballroom Wednesday, expecting a presentation introducing them to fraternity and sorority life. But in addition to the usual presentation, attendees got a crash course in legal disputes from a man who knows those issues well. Read more...

Considered a danger to women’s health by opponents and a law necessary to protect minors by supporters, Proposition 73, if passed, will require new procedures for abortion notification for minors. Read more...