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...

The world-renowned UCLA AIDS Institute is not sitting idly today as it hosts a wide range of events for World AIDS Day. AIDS and HIV are persistent concerns, and UCLA students shouldn’t think they are free from risk. Read more...

Eugene Poole Conser was one of UCLA’s first students and attended the university when it was still located in downtown Los Angeles. Conser passed away Sunday in his Laguna Hills home of natural causes. Read more...

Once a political prisoner in the Soviet Union and now a member of the Israeli Parliament, Natan Sharansky came to UCLA on Tuesday to speak on human rights and democracy in the Middle East. Read more...

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa””mdash;Philile Ntuli sees the effects of HIV/AIDS every time she goes home. A third-year English and politics student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, Ntuli is a resident of Clermont, a township near the port city of Durban. Read more...

Capitalizing on the growing popularity of online social networking, UCLA Student Media has made an addition to bruinwalk.com to help students connect with fellow Bruins. In the new service, students create a profile containing a variety of information, including their interests, attitudes towards such topics as politics and religion, and personal attributes such as gender and physical build. Read more...

The statistics on AIDS and HIV grow more alarming every year. In the United States, as of 2002, 68 percent of estimated new AIDS diagnoses among women were due to heterosexual contact. Read more...