Once called “the leading nonviolence theorist in the world” by Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. James Lawson plans to speak on campus today at a discussion and later at the 2007 Thurgood Marshall Lecture and Dinner on Law and Human Rights. Read more...

A state appeals court unanimously ruled Tuesday against a law designed to give Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa substantial personal control over the Los Angeles Unified School District. Read more...

Faizullah Zaki, a member of the Afghan parliament who fled the country in 1991 to escape the Taliban, said he recalls a time when the Afghani people were denied basic rights and women were banned from going to school. Read more...

Panelists from several Central European countries spoke favorably of their countries’ integration into the European Union during a symposium on campus Wednesday, though some said they were hesitant about future success. Read more...

Following Monday’s shooting at Virginia Tech ““ the deadliest such incident in the nation’s history ““ students at the Blacksburg, Va., campus mourned as details of the events became clearer. Read more...

The emotion, feeling and experience of love has been studied by poets, artists and philosophers for centuries in an attempt to understand what some would call the greatest of human emotions. Read more...