Now that Andrew Jones and his “Dirty Thirty” list are no longer the topic of the hour, the substantive discussions concerning the real issues at hand ““ those of academic freedom and the role of professors in our larger society ““ have begun to take the spotlight. Read more...

The most striking shots of President Bush’s State of the Union address Tuesday night were not of the president himself. They were of the members of Congress: Republicans on one side, Democrats on the other. Read more...

A conservative group at a major public university posts a “watch list” of the school’s most politically outspoken professors on a Web site. National media attention follows. Read more...

With UCLA making national headlines after an alumnus offered to pay students for information on “radical professors,” members of the UCLA community are considering what kind of atmosphere professors should create in the classroom. Read more...

Another wave of changes has swept over the Graduate Record Examination according to the Educational Testing Service, which, beginning in October, will affect the approximately 400,000 U.S. Read more...

Akron/Family may be known as a folk group, but its four members have exactly one thing in common with the average folk musician: beards. The quartet, which will perform tonight at the Cooperage in a concert sponsored by Campus Events, makes adventurous music full of multi-instrumental layering and unexpected sonic detours. Read more...

When the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards are held on Feb. 18, the UCLA community may see one of its own on the red carpet. Computer science Professor Demetri Terzopoulos and his former colleague John Platt of Microsoft won a Technical Achievement Academy Award for a 1987 paper titled “Elastically Deformable Models.” Scientific and Technical Academy Awards are given to “those accomplishments that contribute to the progress of the industry,” according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Web site. Read more...