Steve McNichols remembers being inspired to act after he heard about a beating of a group of activists in Alabama in the early 1960s. Then an undergraduate student at UCLA, McNichols was one of many UCLA students who took an active role in the Civil Rights Movement. Read more...

Hedy Epstein, a German Holocaust survivor, encouraged questions at her lecture Tuesday night but had one small request of her audience ““ if they were going to ask questions, they would have to speak up. Read more...

Sherman Austin said he landed in federal prison for a year for starting an anarchist Web site and had been followed by federal agents and police for years before that. Read more...

Jessica Ngo wants to get an upper hand in the business world, and she is learning Chinese to help her do so. But Ngo is not going about learning a language the way many other students would. Read more...

For “24” fans, Monday night’s ending was quite a shock, and not in the way they’re accustomed to. The episode concluded with Jack Bauer failing to stop terrorists from detonating a “suitcase nuke” in the Los Angeles suburb of Valencia, with casualties estimated in the hundreds of thousands. Read more...

The University of California has made it clear from last year’s compensation scandal that it needs a lesson in ethics. It is taking this literally with a new required ethics course for its employees, but the idea needs some fine-tuning. Read more...

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