As the country took Monday to remember the life of Martin Luther King Jr., students continue to draw upon the broader issues of the Civil Rights Movement in their activism on campus. Read more...

Lawyers and other law professionals faced inquiry by students and prospective law school applicants in the latest UCLA Feud, “Why Law?” Based on the game show “Family Feud,” a panel consisting of various members of the legal profession were quizzed on their careers to help students determine whether law school would be the right choice for them, ahead of February’s Law School Admissions Test. Read more...

Steve McNichols remembers being inspired to act after he heard about a beating of a group of activists in Alabama in the early 1960s. Then an undergraduate student at UCLA, McNichols was one of many UCLA students who took an active role in the Civil Rights Movement. Read more...

Hedy Epstein, a German Holocaust survivor, encouraged questions at her lecture Tuesday night but had one small request of her audience ““ if they were going to ask questions, they would have to speak up. Read more...

Sherman Austin said he landed in federal prison for a year for starting an anarchist Web site and had been followed by federal agents and police for years before that. Read more...

Jessica Ngo wants to get an upper hand in the business world, and she is learning Chinese to help her do so. But Ngo is not going about learning a language the way many other students would. Read more...

For “24” fans, Monday night’s ending was quite a shock, and not in the way they’re accustomed to. The episode concluded with Jack Bauer failing to stop terrorists from detonating a “suitcase nuke” in the Los Angeles suburb of Valencia, with casualties estimated in the hundreds of thousands. Read more...