Smiling from ear to ear, Ben Howland was formally introduced as the UCLA head men’s basketball coach on Thursday. The 45-year-old Southern California native glowed as UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero made the formal announcement in front of a horde of broadcast media, print media, boosters, UCLA administrators and Howland’s family in the J.D. Read more...

UCLA suffered a tragic loss with the death of Cynthia Rabuy, a highly respected and revered student leader who was killed Wednesday night in a traffic collision. Read more...

Empowerment! is consistent I am writing in response to the editorial, “Slates should focus on ideas, not elections” (April 2). As a member of Student Empowerment! Read more...

UCLA is a large enough campus that any student who wishes to do so, can remain invisible, inactive and self-interested, unscathed. That was not Cynthia Rabuy. Read more...

Bowling for Columbine” director Michael Moore has received a lot of press lately because he referred to Bush as a “fictitious president fighting a fictitious war” when he accepted an Oscar last Sunday. Read more...

Over 250 students, staff and public interest advocates celebrated the California Public Interest Research Group’s 30-year anniversary on campus Thursday night. The event featured speakers Ariana Huffington and Assembly Majority Floor Leader Marco Firebaugh. Read more...

Representatives from the Graduate Students Association and the Undergraduate Students Association Council leave today for northern California to join lobbying efforts against an expected increase in student fees next year. Read more...