This week a number of student groups will host events aimed at increasing the visibility of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at UCLA. Art, live performances, a barbecue and a resource fair are among the events comprising National Coming Out Week, which organizers say they hope will strengthen the LGBT community’s presence on campus and make all students ““ regardless of their sexual orientation ““ feel comfortable at UCLA. Read more...

UCLA became the first university to establish an endowed chair devoted specifically to the study of the Japanese-American internment during World War II and named Lane Ryo Hirabayashi to hold the position. Read more...

As she made her way up to the podium, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., was handed a plastic box to stand on to boost her 4-foot-11-inch body above the podium. Read more...

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College students seeking to pay their bills may be tempted by egg donor agency advertisements with five-figure compensation values. Egg donor agencies and donor banks seeking young women commonly place daily advertisements in college newspapers, such as the Daily Bruin. Read more...

UCLA held its annual Millennium Ball, a benefit gala, at the new Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Thursday. Though the hospital is not scheduled to open until September 2007, the benefit raised over $5 million for the new facility. Read more...

The publisher of the Los Angeles Times was fired Thursday after he refused to make the cutbacks and staff cuts ordered by the paper’s owner, the Tribune Company ““ a conglomerate that also owns the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, the Baltimore Sun, Newsday, baseballs’ Chicago Cubs and the distribution rights to South Park. Read more...