Students observed World AIDS Day on Wednesday by educating themselves about their own bodies and learning about the global epidemic. The UCLA AIDS Institute, the world arts and cultures department and other organizations and student groups organized a series of workshops and movies, provided areas for HIV testing and held seminars on sex education, among other topics. Read more...

The U.S. Department of Education wants to know all about you. In a disturbing announcement, a research wing of the department has recommended the launch of a national database for the collection of detailed student data to enhance the tracking of academic success, but it’s a dangerous idea. Read more...

For years, universities have facilitated military recruiters despite discriminatory policies against gays. Now, some schools may be able to change their policy after a court ruling upheld the right of universities to bar discriminatory groups ““ including the federal government. Read more...

Albert D. Hutter, a UCLA English professor since 1970 and winner of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, died at his home on Thanksgiving of unknown causes. Read more...

It was almost 7:15 p.m. as the members of the undergraduate governing body slowly filled the room and the gavel finally made three short knocks on the table inside the Gothic-influenced decorations of room 417 in Kerckhoff Hall-. Read more...

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa “”mdash; Race is still something almost no South African can avoid thinking about, even though part of the promise of the New South Africa was that race as an issue was supposed to fade. Read more...

An affair with a Pilates instructor, a couple’s experiences with literal and figurative strangulation, an academic whose specialty in moral philosophy doesn’t preclude him from delving into promiscuous sex with students and colleagues ““ such is the world laid out by Jonathan Franzen, the National Book Award-winning author who spoke Wednesday evening at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Read more...