Carole Yu discovered Camp Kesem, a complimentary summer camp for the children of cancer patients, while her husband was seeking treatment for a rare form of nonsmoker's lung cancer at the UCLA Medical Center. "I was thinking, "˜How will I support (my children) through this?' We didn't really know anyone with cancer," Yu said. Read more...

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Bobby Jackson putts in the Camp Kesem Charity Golf Tournament. (courtesy of Maury Phillips)

Over the weekend, Hal Ackerman was on the East Coast, traveling from bookstore to bookstore, promoting his new book,"Stein, Stoned." Come Monday, the UCLA lecturer was back in Rolfe Hall, teaching his eight graduate students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. "Pick a card, any card," Ackerman said with a slight smile, spreading a deck of playing cards on the table before his students. Read more...

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UCLA lecturer Hal Ackerman from the School of Theater, Film and Television wrote a book called “Stein, Stoned” about a crime-fighting former marijuana activist. (courtesy of David Chute)

Former UCLA student Gabe Rose distinctly remembers March 5, 2007, when more than 1,000 students crowded shoulder-to-shoulder in Kerckhoff patio to hear Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards speak about the moral responsibility of the United States. Read more...