Congressman Barney Frank, D-Mass., has introduced legislation that would repeal a law barring convicted drug offenders from receiving financial aid. “I don’t condone illegal drug use,” Frank said in a press release, “but in my opinion it is a mistake to use the student financial aid system as a blanket method of punishing people who are convicted of minor drug violations.” Under the current law, mandated by the Higher Education Act’s drug provision, convicted students over age 18 are ineligible for aid for one year from the time of conviction for their first offense. Read more...

Every day, students sulk out of their general education classes, muttering curses about their professor giving them too much work. With last fall’s unit increase for GE courses, professors have had to make an equal increase in workload if it isn’t already at the level required for a five unit course. Read more...

After two hours of debate on Tuesday the Los Angeles City Council fell one vote shy of passing a resolution against a United States-led war in Iraq lacking U.N. Read more...

Tre from the rap group the Pharcyde performs in Westwood Plaza Wednesday to a crowd of students. Read more...

In a room full of people passionate about the truth, conflict was inevitable. On Wednesday night, the screening of a film about the Israeli military action in Jenin last spring and a presentation by a UCLA student who visited the site sparked a heated debate over the actions of the Israeli military in the West Bank refugee camp. Read more...

In some English classes, students read Shakespeare and explicate poetry, but one seminar takes self-motivated students to unchartered territory where in-class sexual analysis is part of their participation grades. Read more...

UCLA students who take off to class ten minutes before it starts can consider themselves in a state of oblivion ““ not because they’ll be late or unprepared, but because they’re likely unaware of the time and effort it takes for a student using a wheelchair to travel down Bruin Walk. Read more...