An order by the San Francisco Superior Court to block fee increases for some professional-school students last week is forcing the University of California to begrudgingly lower student fees in what could cost the university as much as $15 million in fee revenue. Read more...

From the beginning, it was clear that self-congratulation would be the hub of democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry’s campaign. Conceived in sick irony, his opening remarks at the Democratic National Convention echoed: “I’m John Kerry, and I’m reporting for duty.” For several decades, the only issue candidate Kerry did not flip-flop on was his claim that he was a Vietnam war hero, a Purple Heart recipient and, by extension, a true American. Read more...

UCLA library officials named veteran employee Teresa Barnett as the director of a long-established program that documents numerous interviews to record a local history. UCLA’s Oral History Program preserves records of the recent past by audio recording people who experienced events first-hand. Read more...

A specialist in gene analysis and praised for his friendliness and sense of humor, Zheng Luo, staff research associate in the UCLA Department of Neurology, died July 28 of a liver abscess. Read more...