Scholars traveling to UCLA from the Islamic world have faced few problems since Sept. 11, 2001. But others within the Islamic studies community maintain that obtaining visas for Islamic scholars has become more difficult in recent years. Read more...

Within 100 days of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, over 800,000 people, systematically slaughtered by people armed with machetes, lay dead while the international community stood by and did not intervene. Read more...

Justin Fong, like many, was in the comfort of his own home watching the news when he first heard about the widespread devastation caused by the Dec. Read more...

USC scientist charged with molestation A renowned gene therapy scientist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to molesting a young girl he instructed in martial arts. Dr. William French Anderson, 68, director of the Gene Therapies Laboratories at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, remained free on $600,000 bail. Read more...

Aside from midterms, hangovers and the odd job, most UCLA students probably believe they have a high quality of life ““ and by many standards, they do. Read more...

Hisham Mahmoud is a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA, and has studied in Egypt, Mauritania, Spain, and speaks more than four languages. He came to UCLA Tuesday evening not as a student, but as a lecturer of the program called Jesus: The Prophet of Islam, From the Miraculous Birth to His Final Return. Read more...

The undergraduate student government’s efforts to repeal the expected cumulative progress requirement could be impeded due to the lack of scientific backing for their survey. The survey is scheduled to take place during the fourth and fifth weeks of this quarter. Read more...