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...

During a summer day in 1995, 47-year-old Norma McCorvey was baptized as a Christian in a Dallas swimming pool. Since her conversion, McCorvey has been actively advocating a repeal of the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Read more...

Ann Brooks says she has developed a pretty good sense of how to help a student considering abortion. Brooks, the nurse manager of Women’s Health Services at the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, does the bulk of pregnancy counseling at the center. Read more...