The music is what attracted the students to come, but it was the words that made them stay. As the sun went down over DeNeve Plaza Thursday night, the UCLA Clothesline Project held its annual Take Back the Night event, which was the culmination of a week filled with t-shirts, statistics and a unified struggle against all gender-based violence and hate crimes. Read more...

The revision of the 2005-2006 budget is scheduled to be released today and is anticipated with optimism by some, but caution by others. Recently, there has been talk in the media and out of Sacramento about an increase in the California budget this year ““ by a few billion dollars. Read more...

As the 57th anniversary of Israeli independence was commemorated in Bruin Plaza on Thursday under the joint efforts of several student groups, the events were observed by a half ring of silent, sign-bearing protesters from the Muslim Students Association. Read more...

Student Power! received its first taste of victory Thursday night, as the results of the Undergraduate Students Association Council runoff election were announced. Student Power! won two additional seats in the runoff elections, giving it more representation on council. Read more...

In a flood of yellow light, reflecting off the facade of Kerckhoff Hall, Elections Board Chairman Nathan Lam stood in front of a mass of students Thursday night, just as he had a week before. Read more...