From Jim Belushi as the embodiment of excess in “Animal House” to Van Wilder’s escapades as a full-time socialite, pop culture tends to portray fraternities as bastions for unmotivated misfits, a university’s elitist underbelly more concerned with male chauvinism than studying Charlemagne.

Water regulators’ recent vote to phase out “once-through” cooling systems in 19 of California’s power plants may not have won them many friends in the energy industry, but for those who enjoy California’s diverse and beautiful coastal ecosystems, the move comes as welcome news.

Obama just cannot seem to catch a break.

The case for medical marijuana just keeps getting stronger.

A single shot rings out, echoed by two more in reply, the predawn lull of a morning in southern Sudan shattered. Here, in a region ravaged by 50 years of civil war and immense poverty, deadly skirmishes and the cold reality of losing family have become routine.

The pressure on President Barack Obama to implement a new strategy in Afghanistan is increasing daily.

After eight years, more than $200 billion spent and tens of thousands of American and Afghani deaths, the general in charge of military operations in Afghanistan recently described the situation as “serious” and “deteriorating.

The public debt has ballooned to over $11 trillion, or $38,000 per person, and shows no signs of coming down.

Whether you party hard or hardly at all, the sight of a blacked-out college student in the midst of a drinking binge is so familiar within the Greek system that it hardly seems strange at all.

In its seven-year history here at UCLA, Dance Marathon has managed to raise over $1 million for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, including $362,000 this year alone.