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...

Social conservatives have succeeded. The Senate passed a spending bill Saturday that contains a clause stating that taxpayer funds will not be withheld from health care providers who do not undergo abortion training. Read more...

It’s rare such a liberal cause as medicinal marijuana gets tied in with traditionally conservative states’ rights proponents. Two California women are currently suing the federal government, saying they should not have been prosecuted for their use of medicinal marijuana . Read more...