Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a sweeping series of nominations to city advisory panels last week, tapping a diverse group of the city’s most accomplished community leaders including a UCLA pediatrics professor and a high-ranking member of the university’s labor center. Read more...

The drama and frustration of slate politics have already taken hold of undergraduate student government, impeding progress after only its first meeting of the academic year. Read more...

“¢bull; In the editorial “Mascot clean-up a good move by NCAA” (Viewpoint, Aug. 8), San Diego State University discontinued its “Aztec ambassador” mascot. In 2004, SDSU introduced the “Aztec warrior” as its mascot, which is currently in use. Read more...

Cindy Sheehan was catapulted into the national limelight in recent weeks when she planted herself in front of President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, to demand an answer as to why her son was killed in Iraq. Read more...

The year 2025 is coming, and it’s going to bring ever-escalating congestion, funding problems for infrastructure, and a lack of college-educated workers to sufficiently man the expanding service sector of the economy, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. Read more...

E-mails purporting to be from the University Credit Union filled UCLA inboxes this month, offering UCU customers the chance to sign up for protection from fraud and identity theft. Read more...