Sometimes storming the castle isn’t the best way to make yourself heard. Members of the Student Worker Front marched on Murphy Hall on Tuesday, demanding that Chancellor Carnesale discuss the plight of service workers with them. Read more...

In a disappointing decision earlier this week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger backtracked from his proposal to allow parole violators other options besides prison. Under the proposal, former inmates with technical parole violations would have been placed in drug treatment programs, halfway houses or monitored electronically rather than being returned to prison. Read more...

Gold Line struggles to meet expectations PASADENA “”mdash; Ridership on the struggling Gold Line rail system linking Pasadena and downtown Los Angeles has failed to meet expectations, drawing only about half the predicted riders. Read more...

The UCLA School of Public Affairs is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a lecture series that began Monday with a discussion on issues pertaining to California politics from former speaker of the California Assembly Herb Wesson. Read more...

UCLA Student Media’s bruinwalk.com launched a new “groups” feature for its social networking tool this quarter that will allow students to not only form online networking groups, but to create entire web pages and publish content without any technical programming experience. Read more...

A dramatic proposal that would restrict when students are allowed to withdraw from class is currently pending in the Academic Senate. It is an unnecessary restriction further limiting academic flexibility and should not be implemented. Read more...

University Police Chief Karl Ross was officially sworn into duty Monday after serving almost 30 years at UCLA and the last one-and-a-half years as acting chief. Read more...