Students equally affected as some classes may no longer be offered Being an excellent employee isn’t enough to secure a job these days amid shrinking state coffers and budget shortfalls. Read more...

A timetable has been set for the final stages of the academic calendar debate, as UCLA governing bodies prepare to make their recommendations by the end of the year upon the request of Chancellor Albert Carnesale. Read more...

With the no-return policy on course readers and textbook-comparable prices, many course readers often fail to alleviate the financial woes of the starving college student at UCLA. Read more...

A few students recently officially created a student group named Student Empowerment!, in what some consider a sabotage campaign against the undergraduate student government slate that uses the same name. Read more...

Raised by a Vietnamese Buddhist mother, Amie McCampbell never felt alienated from Buddhism. An altar with the Buddha’s likeness permanently sat in her parents’ home, she attended pagodas and wore a necklace with a tiny gold Buddha for years during high school. Read more...

Despite pledges by university officials to protect the quality of education, the declining quantity of teaching assistants in some departments suggests the contrary. “We’ve gone from a time where almost any professor with a legitimate need for a teaching assistant received one, to a time where that’s just not a reality anymore,” said Kathy Bawn, associate professor and vice chair of political science undergraduate studies at UCLA. Read more...

The University of California is questioning how its reputation and competitiveness with other universities could be affected by the new state budget cuts. The university judges itself against a group of similar public and private universities, dubbed the “comparison eight,” but the cuts in university programs and rise in student fees resulting from the proposed budget may leave UCLA lagging behind some. Read more...