The results of a UCLA study released Tuesday show that the number of admissions to drug treatment centers and programs increased significantly in four California counties during the first year following the implementation of Proposition 36. Read more...

UCLA announced this week that it has received an $18 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a new Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. Read more...

While mechanics of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are on strike ““ affecting an estimated 500,000 commuters in the Los Angeles area ““ some UCLA students and many workers attempt to find alternative methods of transportation to get to campus. Read more...

Over the past 80 years, the fraternities and sororities on the UCLA campus have been part of a storied history that has had many ups and downs throughout its path. Read more...

Bruce Willison, dean of the Anderson School at UCLA, will step down from his position next summer after serving a five-year stint at the school. Anderson School spokesman Philip Little said Willison decided not to pursue a renewal of his deanship at Anderson partly due to his age. Read more...

Despite Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign promises to preserve educational funding, the University of California’s budget may be “on the chopping block,” political analysts say. Facing an $8 billion deficit for 2004-2005, many believe Schwarzenegger’s pledged audit of the state budget will not find enough free revenue to maintain educational funding without raising taxes or making cuts to other programs like health care or prisons. Read more...

In a region with ever-increasing living costs, supermarket mega-chains must not allow investors to pressure them into cutting health benefits and pay for their workers. Seventy thousand unionized Southern California workers are picketing Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons because those companies have said they cannot offer existing levels of compensation or benefits in the next union contract. Read more...