Sunday, May 3

SCIENCE&HEALTH: Poor with HIV lose lives sooner

The issue of health care disparities between socioeconomic and racial groups was given a new spin with the release of a new study drawing a link between HIV patients’ accumulated wealth and how soon they will succumb to the virus. Read more...


SCIENCE&HEALTH: Chimps don’t go ape over altruism

Chimpanzees do not perform the acts of altruism that humans do, according to a new UCLA study on chimp behavior. A study conducted by researchers at UCLA, Emory University, the University of Texas and the University of Louisiana shows that chimps are indifferent to performing selfless acts in order to benefit or reward other chimps. Read more...


Polls open today

Correction appended Voters will go to the polls today to consider eight ballot propositions in the statewide special election, which could have far-ranging political effects for Sacramento leaders. Read more...



EAP says students safe in France

UCLA students studying abroad in France are safe despite rioting which has created mayhem and caused at least one death in Paris and surrounding cities, University of California officials said Monday None of the 35 students studying in France, 14 based in Paris, are in schools close to areas that have been under heavy violence, said Bruce Hanna, director of communications for the UC Education Abroad Program. Read more...



A new environment for change

After years of working to promote social change in the institutions around it, the group formerly known as the Environmental Coalition is going through some changes itself, including today’s reopening of its Kerckhoff Hall office as the Sustainable Resource Center. Read more...