The University of California demands that all enrolled students be covered by a health insurance plan, either by a private insurer or by the system’s own UC Student Health Insurance Plan. Read more...

California community college student governments must comply with state open meeting laws. And parts of those laws apply to California State University student governments. But by an oversight of government code in California, student governments on University of California campuses are not bound to any public meeting statutes despite taking in millions of dollars in mandatory student fees each year. Read more...

Early Wednesday morning, leaders of the undergraduate student government made a decision to deny hundreds of assembled community members basic information necessary in assessing their student government. Read more...

A newspaper’s reputation stands on its ability to honor two pacts. One is to the people it reports on, whom the staff must make every effort to represent fairly and accurately. Read more...

Three UCLA students were assaulted and robbed in Westwood during the first half of February – a less than two-week span. All three crimes took place near the same stretch of Ophir Drive, which spans the North Village from Landfair Avenue to Veteran Avenue, an area heavily populated by UCLA students. Read more...

Shortly before leaving for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, University of California President Janet Napolitano told California radio station KQED that she would bring the University’s values of “openness and tolerance” with her to the Russian coast. Read more...