The truth is rarely pure and never simple, Oscar Wilde informs us in “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. Read more...

Asserting that they have a right to access government information and data, the interest group Students for Sensible Drug Policy sued the U.S. Department of Education last week for failing to disclose a state-level breakdown of students who were denied federal financial aid due to prior drug convictions. Read more...

Results of the annual freshmen survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA found that interest and involvement in community service have reached their highest levels in 40 years among students across the nation. Read more...

The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics is a product of both the past and the future. It is at once an acknowledgement of lessons learned from the world’s nuclear history and a mechanism to help society keep up with science in the fast-developing field of genetics. Read more...

With the aim of promoting cultural diversity and changing social perceptions about Islam, the UCLA Muslim Students Association is putting on Islamic Awareness Week. Leyla Ozgur, an Islamic studies graduate student, gave a lecture Monday night titled “Diversity of Tongues and Cultures,” which highlighted diversity within the Islamic faith. Read more...

Peter Ladefoged, UCLA professor emeritus of linguistics and the foremost linguistic phonetician in the world, died in London on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at the age of 80. Read more...