The day Ahmed Alwishah landed in Iraq was the day the U.S. Army captured Saddam Hussein. Alwishah, a graduate student in the UCLA Near Eastern languages and cultures department, had went to Iraq on Dec. Read more...

To friends and family, former UCLA student Diana Chien was a loving person, a world traveler and a great high school basketball player. To the New York Post, as she took her own life, Chien was a chance to sell newspapers. Read more...

Reports on the UCLA cadaver scandal that ran as Yahoo News’s top stories last week are now filed in the “Oddly Enough” category. The L.A. Times’ stories now run in the California section, not the front page. Read more...

The Republican Party’s newest star has afforded conservatives a rare high-profile supporter in California who could prove helpful for President Bush’s re-election chances. Since his election in the November 2003 recall, Gov. Read more...

High school students began learning the fate of their acceptance or denial of admission to UCLA last weekend, but the status of thousands of UC freshman applicants lies somewhere in between with the Guaranteed Transfer Option. Read more...

Turns out we have our very own hometown circus, right over there in the North Village. The racket started in February, when dozens of students began waking up to find $40 tickets on their windshields. Read more...

When Jay Leno announced last Monday that the cadaver scandal is the most embarrassing thing to happen at UCLA since last year’s football team, Westwood residents might have been the first to laugh: He found an easy audience. Read more...