Last year, the black daughter of a former colleague of Vu Tran, director of UCLA undergraduate admissions, was faced with a quandary. She was accepted to UCLA, UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California, which offered her a full tuition scholarship. Read more...

It has been 10 years since the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, but crime is still rampant, unemployment rates are still high, and racism still exists. Read more...

The 1954 landmark court case Brown v. Board of Education called for the end of racial segregation in education. Still, it is common for students of similar backgrounds to practice a different kind of segregation on campus ““ to converge together in the form of ethnic-based student organizations or merely same race groups of friends. Read more...

Hungry racquetball players and thirsty weight-lifters, your solution is under construction. The Energy Zone convenience store will be the latest addition to the John Wooden Center next fall. Read more...

A typically quiet street in Santa Monica filled with curious residents and drive-by horns as nearly 100 UCLA and California State University students protested the governor’s proposed budget cuts on Tuesday afternoon in front of Schatzi on Main, a restaurant owned by Gov. Read more...

The media and public are outraged and embarrassed by new photographs of abused Iraqis, which seem to surface every day. This outrage has been most notably manifested in calls for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Read more...

African Student Union members rallied Monday in Bruin Plaza, asserting that though segregation was officially banned 50 years ago in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, it still has yet to be effectively implemented. Read more...