In an effort to inform the community about the alleged desecration of a Koran at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and a related incident in North Carolina, the Muslim Student Association held a demonstration and distributed copies of the Koran at UCLA on Thursday. Read more...

Petty Theft A bicycle worth $110 was stolen from 700 Tiverton Ave. on May 26. Another bicycle worth $210 was stolen from the same location on the same day. Read more...

Board approves AIDSagency contract The Board of Supervisors approved a nearly $200,000 noncompetitive contract with a nonprofit AIDS agency amid controversy over how the county is doling out its AIDS funds. Read more...

California needs more teachers, and Gov. Schwarzenegger has a plan. But he must make sure the plan is adequately funded, or his proposed “California Teach” program won’t amount to much. Read more...

Jeanne Williams Newsom, former assistant dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine, died May 27 after battling cancer for several years. She was 83. Newsom’s stepson, Ted Newsom, said she suffered a “fairly damaging stroke” seven or eight years ago and has been on and off chemotherapy for the past three to four years. Read more...

Graduate student government officials say Congress needs to take action to make student visas more accessible if UCLA wants to continue to attract the best and brightest students not only from California, but from around the world. Read more...