When Mike Mariner and Nate Gebhard found themselves without direction in regard to their future career paths, they did what they always do when they face a problem: They went on a road trip in a lime green and blue RV. Read more...

The UC library system is negotiating its contracts with publishers in an effort to maintain access to research materials for students, faculty and staff. Escalating commercial journal prices, compounded by the state’s budget crisis, threaten to undermine the UC’s ability to maintain its extensive, up-to-date collection of scientific journals. Read more...

The preliminary hearing for a suspect shot in an altercation with a university police officer Oct. 5 in Kerckhoff Hall was postponed Friday to give the defense more time to prepare for trial. Read more...

Nuclear labs. Lapses in security. Mismanagement. Corporate competitors appearing on the horizon. The University of California begins to look like the scene of a political melodrama as it contemplates the very real possibility of losing some of its best research facilities to corporate competitors. Read more...

As they near their 35th years of existence, two of the four major ethnic studies centers are continually working to obtain departmental status ““ a process some feel is overdue. Read more...

Activists around California will launch a week of demonstrations and rallies today to remove Ward Connerly from the University of California Board of Regents. The campaign organizers, the national and UC Berkeley chapters of By Any Means Necessary, say Connerly, a long-time critic of affirmative action, has used his position as UC regent to further his political agenda. Read more...

This week’s meeting of the University of California Board of Regents at UCLA marks the only time the board will visit an undergraduate campus this year, and an opportunity student organizers are making sure they don’t waste. Read more...