In recent weeks, relations between China and Japan have taken a turn for the worse as the two nations have traded barbs over Japan’s role in World War II and their place in the United Nations. Read more...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California state Legislature should be commended for officially declaring April 24 to be the “California Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide.” It is estimated that 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empires died between 1915 and 1923 in a series of massacres and forced relocations. Read more...

It was 9 o’clock on a Friday night when Jenny Wood, a presidential candidate for the undergraduate student government walked hurriedly to the interview. She wasn’t coming from a party, date, or dinner with her sorority. Read more...

It’s difficult to determine how seriously one should take Jake Strom. As he posed in the archway in front of Royce Hall, clad in street clothes and wearing the head of a chicken costume, occasionally making obscene gestures for the camera, the passing campus tour groups weren’t sure what to make of him either. Read more...

The navy blue t-shirt with the huge letters “UCLA” across his chest said it all. Big and bold, blue and gold, it embodied Alex Gruenberg’s every stated aspiration of being not only Undergraduate Students Association Council president, but a student at UCLA: an individual who aspires to stand tall for everyone. Read more...

As the first day of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books drew to a close Saturday afternoon, not one UCLA student had signed up for the Wine of the Month Club. Read more...

Dave Lerman was once a comedian who made audiences of thousands laugh. He and his partner were guests on the Howard Stern Show. Together, they once toured Las Vegas, and entertained movie deals and television offers. Read more...