In an attempt to promote understanding of day-to-day life in Israel, three Israeli youths are speaking on campus today about their experiences living in the country and serving in the Israeli army. Read more...

Iraq ambassador named: President Bush named John Negroponte, the United States’ top diplomat at the United Nations, as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq on Monday and asserted that Iraq “˜”˜will be free and democratic and peaceful.” Bush announced the nomination in an Oval Office ceremony. Read more...

Only two candidates running in the upcoming Graduate Student Association election have significant experience with GSA affairs. Hardly any of the candidates have articulated clear goals or specific proposals. Read more...

In order to preserve academic freedom, the California state senate must reject a Republican-backed bill designed to eliminate perceived biases in higher education. The bill, based largely on conservative activist David Horowitz’s Academic Bill of Rights, would attempt to keep faculty members from being hired or fired because of their politics. Read more...

Correction Appended The Armenian Graduate Students Association is hosting a blood drive today in memory of Armenians killed over the course of two days in 1915. Read more...

Normally a festival would not take place in a small, cramped room in Boelter Hall, but that did not stop the UCLA Linux Users Group from holding Install-fest, an event to help people install Linux on Saturday. Read more...