Individuals can change a country. That was the message attorney and UCLA alumnus Johnnie Cochran gave his audience Monday evening at an event sponsored by the Center for African American Studies. Read more...

With state-wide elections less than two weeks away, recent polls show that while Gray Davis has a ten-point lead, a majority of voters find both main party candidates unsatisfactory. Read more...

Students will have the chance today to talk about whether they should increase the fee they pay toward the campus’ undergraduate student government. The Undergraduate Students Association Council will hold a debate forum to explain directly to students the language and rationale for a proposed $9.25 quarterly increase to the existing $24.09 it collects from them. Read more...

The potential switch from the quarter to the semester system, currently being considered by Academic Senate, would make life easier for two UCLA graduate schools already on the semester system ““ the School of Law and the School of Medicine. Read more...

A proposition on the November ballot would give UCLA half of the funds it needs to rebuild its woebegone Engineering I building. Proposition 47, a multi-billion dollar bond measure that allocates $1.6 billion for higher education construction projects, would hand the university $24.9 million to bring the engineering building into compliance with earthquake safety laws. Read more...

Jerry Springer’s done it. Howard Stern has kind of done it. And now, the people of MTV’s “Jackass” are doing it. Okay, I will admit, I have been prone to laugh sometimes at the oddities that transpire on “Jackass.” Okay, I’ll admit it, I laughed a lot. Read more...

I picked up the paper on Monday and read about the overwhelming stupidity of UCLA students, faculty and administration in their decision to bring in and then likely remove a vending machine kiosk at the cost of $100,000. Read more...