In a room lined with images from around the world, people from across the globe gathered Thursday to hear former deputy president of South Africa Jacob Zuma detail his struggles in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, stress the importance of unity, and speak on the issue of race in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read more...

Moments before the Senate confirmed John Roberts as the next chief justice of the United States in a 78-22 vote on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said the court “will embark upon a new era in its history, the Roberts era.” But just what that era will be like is still unknown. Read more...

John Roberts Jr. has received so much support as the next chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court that law Professor Grant Nelson said “you can bet your life savings he’ll be confirmed.” Though it is unlikely that many in the UCLA community will gamble on Roberts’ appointment, professors and students alike expect the Republican federal appellate judge to be confirmed by the Senate when his appointment is put to a vote today. Read more...

A UCLA Medical Center liver transplant patient at the top of the regional waiting list was denied receipt of an available liver when doctors at St. Read more...

Researchers, public officials and business leaders took part in a conference Wednesday at the Anderson School of Management to discuss the school’s latest forecast that the U.S. Read more...

Last year, undergraduate student government led UCLA’s Get Out the Vote campaign, made progress on making nighttime and outdoor programming possible and failed to repeal the expected cumulative progress requirement. Read more...

Although the new residential plazas ““ Rieber Vista and Hedrick Summit ““ were designed for upper division students, UCLA Housing has had to adjust to an unexpected number of first-year students living in the plazas. Read more...