Roughly a decade after state voters passed a proposition that banned affirmative action at the University of California, the university system's governing board called for an aggressive approach to increasing depleted minority enrollment. Read more...

The Undergraduate Students Association Council appointed one of the former managing editors of the Bruin Standard to the Associated Students UCLA Communications Board at a special meeting on Tuesday night. Read more...

Halfway around the world, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saad Shaikh was flipping through television channels when he settled on CNN International. It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and as he watched, a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Read more...

Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad announced today, along with the chancellor, mayor and governor, a gift of $20 million to UCLA's stem cell institute. Read more...

Students and visitors packed the auditorium of the UCLA Law School on Monday to hear a panel of professors discuss the rulings made during the 2006 Supreme Court term and their implications. Read more...

In an effort to shed light on what he called inefficient and outdated University of California administrative processes, UC Board of Regents Chairman Richard Blum drafted a letter to his fellow regents Tuesday outlining specific strategies to address and remedy what he called a dysfunctional and outmoded UC bureaucracy. Read more...