Legal experts plan to gather today for a daylong conference at UCLA’s Williams Institute to announce the creation of a new chair focusing on sexual-orientation law and policy, the first of its kind in the nation. Read more...

Studies show that when children are asked to draw a picture of a scientist, they will most likely draw a male figure in a white lab coat. Read more...

A month after his death, journalist Hrant Dink will be commemorated Sunday afternoon in Dodd Hall in a program called “Hrant Dink: His Legacy and His Challenge ““ A Tribute.” Dink, founder and editor in chief of Agos, a Turkish-Armenian newspaper published in Turkey, was murdered by teenager Ogun Samsast in front of the Agos office on Jan. Read more...

Years ago when a colleague asked Peter Berton, a professor emeritus of international relations at USC, to look over a few papers on Judaism in China, Berton thought to himself, “What do I know about these topics? Read more...

UCLA students traveling east on Wilshire Boulevard toward downtown Los Angeles may find they have one fewer bus route option by June 2007. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has proposed a closure of one bus route, line 21, which runs from UCLA’s Ackerman turnaround to downtown Los Angeles. Read more...

After Patricia was accused by the university of illegally downloading music for the second time, she was called in for a disciplinary meeting. The first-year theater student, who declined to give her last name because she fears being named in a lawsuit, said university officials told her that during the time she was in the meeting, 24 other students had been accused of the same offense she was facing ““ copyright infringement. Read more...