Has the recent shooting in Kerckhoff Hall changed your sense of security on campus? Carolyn Pratt Third-year, psychology “No. I spend a couple hours in Kerckhoff every night because I am part of a student group. Read more...

Speaking at UCLA’s 1950 commencement ceremony, Ralph J. Bunche told the crowd, “I am a Bruin. I have always been proud of that distinction.” Today, the African American Studies Center is being renamed after Ralph J. Read more...

The bit of good news from Tuesday’s election was that Proposition 54 went down in a landslide. After university students and public health and law enforcement officials spent months organizing opposition to the ill-conceived ballot initiative, voters sent a clear message that attempting to eliminate race and ethnicity from public life is not a good idea ““ a message Ward Connerly missed. Read more...

During National Coming Out Week, thousands of Americans identify themselves as part of a community facing discrimination far too often. President Bush’s recent declaration that the week following Coming Out Week will be Marriage Protection Week, does nothing to help curb this discrimination. Read more...

The military’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday for a case which has the potential to strike down the military’s criminalization of sex between two individuals of the same gender. Read more...

Even though Proposition 54 was defeated in Tuesday’s recall election by a wide margin, University of California Regent Ward Connerly, the man who introduced the initiative, said he will try to revive the issue by introducing a rewritten version of the proposition in the future. Read more...