“Pedestrian” is not a word normally associated with the academic path of a UCLA student.

A doctoral program in humanities can now take almost a decade to complete.

For the past three years, voter turnout for the Undergraduate Students Association Council elections has hovered around 37 percent of the undergraduate student population.

As a college student with a Facebook account, I heard about the “Kony 2012″ campaign the night it launched. The 30-minute video, created by Invisible Children, a nonprofit organization that seeks to educate people about the crimes committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Central Africa, spread faster than any other Internet video in history.

California lawmakers have become the most recent group to don hoodies to pay tribute to Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teen who was killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.

Although for many of us ramen and popcorn might be staples of our diet, eating healthily is important for college students. Our minds and bodies need the proper fuel from the healthiest and, ideally, the most environmentally friendly sources.

Sexual assaults are an unfortunately common occurrence on college campuses. One in five college women will be sexually assaulted at some point during her undergraduate career.

Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as gay, will now be the first sitting member of Congress to enter a same-sex marriage. Frank will wed his boyfriend of almost 5 years, Jim Ready, in the state of Massachusetts.

If you have not been to Feast at Rieber, the Hill’s recently renovated pan-Asian dining hall, you are missing out. Entering Feast, students are greeted with salutations from Asian countries ““ seven to be exact. The restaurant features cuisines from China, Japan, Korea, India, Thailand, Vietnam and Hawaii.

Given the state of the state, with our less-than-stellar economy, Gov. Jerry Brown’s Wednesday speech was expected to be rather sad.