The new Fiat Lux freshman seminar “Zen and Art of Cooperation: Buddhist Approaches to Peacemaking” requires students to take a break from class work. Taught by sociology Associate Professor Peter Kollock, the class invites students to slow down and practice zen. Read more...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took another major step Thursday toward achieving his longstanding goal of obtaining a new state budget on time without raising taxes as he released the May Revise of his budget proposal. Read more...

After the move to online polling increased student participation in the undergraduate student government elections in 2003, the slight drop in voter turnout this year may indicate a return to the old trend of decline. Read more...

Amid chanting and cheers of excitement, the undergraduate student government primary elections revealed a tight race with runoffs for president, internal vice president and general representatives. Read more...

Meters fixed UCLA Transportation Director Renee Fortier said meters in Lot 6 that the Daily Bruin reported broken have been fixed. Meters 0433, 0463, 0479, 0480 and 0482 in Lot 6 were fixed last week after Transportation was informed the meters shortchanged people. Read more...

Wind rustles gently through the blossoming trees in the Rolfe Sculpture Garden as undergraduates, graduates, alumni and professors congregate and listen to people taking turns reading George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” aloud. Read more...

UCLA center Mike McCloskey has been cleared to participate with the UCLA football team after sitting out all of spring practice with pleurisy, an inflammation of the lining of the lungs. Read more...