The Associated Press First lady Laura Bush (middle) talks with Japanese Emperor Akihito (right) By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Staff Despite being 3,000 miles away, Laura Bush fueled debate between administrators and students who objected to the possibility of having the first lady speak at this year’s commencement ceremony. Read more...

Conservative feminist featured The Bruin Republicans are sponsoring “Terrorism and its Friends on the Left,” featuring speaker Ann Coulter. Coulter is a feminist conservative who has appeared on “Politically Incorrect” with Bill Maher, NBC’s Today Show and CNN’s Larry King Live, among others. Read more...

  BRIDGET O’BRIEN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Gov. Gray Davis gets down and gets funky, "raising the roof" at the Democratic State Convention in the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday. Read more...

By Jacqueline Lee Daily Bruin Contributor Undergraduate male life cannot be summed up in relieving sexual frustration, avoiding the dishes, or fighting over the play station. Read more...

  NICOLE MILLER/Daily Bruin Diana Chapman Walsh speaks about "College and the Search for Meaning in a Contentious World" on Thursday. By Christina Jenkins Daily Bruin Contributor Teaching spirituality on campus is appropriate claims one leading lecturer on education, but some students question whether it’s possible to divorce spirituality from religion. Read more...

By Sabrina Singhapattanapong Daily Bruin Contributor On the 60th anniversary of the internment of Japanese Americans in 1942, more than 100 students, former internees and community members assembled Saturday to discuss similarities in discrimination of Japanese Americans and Muslims today. Read more...

  MICHAEL TOBEY Students swarm Ackerman Union for the annual Anti-Valentine’s Day Sale last week. The Associated Students of UCLA saw its sales fall short of its projection by more than $50,000. Read more...