The West Nile virus continues to make its looming presence known among the mosquito population in Southern California as the number of infections increases. Saturating news headlines over the summer, the virus has some UCLA students worried and others unconcerned as the new school year starts. Read more...

In this year’s tightly contested presidential election between Republican President Bush and Democratic challenger Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, there appears to be little room for fringe candidates. Read more...

Even new students don’t need to be told that college and experimentation with drugs tend to come hand in hand. Whether they are responding to peer pressure, attempting to seek relief from stress, or satisfying their curiosities, at least a small percentage of students from universities nationwide turn to drugs and alcohol at some point in their college careers. Read more...

The recent resignation of UC Regent Haim Saban reduced the UC Board of Regents from 26 members to 25, but the change would have been hardly noticeable at its bimonthly meeting last week. Read more...

Californians living around the Mojave Desert, Coachella Valley, Imperial Valley and eastern San Diego County braced for a significant earthquake, prompted by announcements from UCLA professor Vladimir Keilis-Borok and his team of scientists. Read more...

Staff and administrators continue to wait at UC Merced for their pioneer class of students, but due to litigation, postponement of the school’s opening and an uncooperative state budget, the 10th University of California campus is still in its preliminary stages of building and will not house students until fall 2005, a year later than this year’s proposed opening date. Read more...

In the race to the White House, a Massachusetts liberal is battling a Bush in close, heated battle. Sound familiar? Well, it does to Michael Dukakis. Read more...