The UC Regents met last Thursday to discuss how they would deal with hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts to the UC system. That same day, UCLA held a press conference to announce the hiring of men’s basketball coach Ben Howland at the hefty price of almost $1 million a year for seven years. Read more...

UCLA faculty’s overwhelming desire to stay with the quarter system was announced Tuesday during the third Legislative Assembly meeting of the year. Forty-six of the 57 departments that submitted reports voted to keep the current academic calendar while only six voted to change to semesters. Read more...

As U.S. tanks rolled through Baghdad in what looks to be the last phases of the Iraqi war, a group of UCLA students and community members were already gathering with a renowned Middle East expert to discuss its aftermath. Read more...

Laughter outweighed tears Wednesday as students, faculty, administrators and family members remembered Cynthia Rabuy, who died last week in a traffic collision at the age of 23. Read more...

Marilyn Gray and Dennis Tyler, who are running for the Academic Affairs office in the Graduate Student Association, said they are committed to work on ensuring academic rights for graduate students. Read more...

Even UCLA students adamantly against the war in Iraq generally still strongly support the U.S. troops in Iraq. But the question that arose at the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting Tuesday night was whether a resolution intended to support the troops could actually end up being a resolution in support of war. Read more...

Code Pink “childish, disrespectful” With all due respect to Mark Davis’ letter “Jones is childish, disrespectful” (April 7), the comments regarding the Code Pink women were way out of line. Read more...