At the “Globalization and Human Trafficking” symposium held Friday, professors of the World Arts and Cultures Department, art students at UCLA, and a number of representatives from a wide array of organizations met to discuss the issue of human trafficking as a global phenomenon and demonstrate the ways in which art can be used to spread awareness of this issue and in the broader context of social activism. Read more...

The UCLA School of Law has opened its Master of Laws (LL.M.) program to those with American law degrees this year, expanding a program that was formerly limited to international law school graduates. Read more...

University of California President Robert Dynes hopes to look ahead with a series of compensation reforms after facing state legislators in a Senate hearing last week, which marked the second time in just over a decade that the UC has had to answer to the state regarding its compensation practices. Read more...

Doing heroin the night before her SATs doesn’t exactly earn her a gold medal in good behavior, but Eve Ensler maintains that she has always tried to be good. Read more...

The Bunche Chair Lecture Series kicked off Thursday night with democracy and human rights advocate Randall Robinson, in celebration of the newly endowed Bunche Chair in International Studies and Black History Month. Read more...

Although UCLA has historically been headed by a white male, national trends suggest an increase in minority and female university chief executives, which may have implications for the replacement of Chancellor Albert Carnesale. Read more...

The suspect arrested in the Dec. 25, 2005, shooting of a Habibi Cafe patron was ordered Tuesday by a Superior Court judge to stand trial. Rafael Martirosyan was ordered to stand trial by L.A. Read more...