Student leaders were saddened by next year’s admission figures showing a systemwide decrease in admissions, including minority students, even as the drop was expected. But student leaders also said the figures won’t significantly affect strategies they have used so far to fight proposed state budget cuts to the university. Read more...

Sophia Aron was on campus July 31, 2002 when a bomb went off in the cafeteria of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Orly Rabinowiz witnessed a suicide bombing. Read more...

Since the University of California stopped using race considerations as a factor in college admissions, many campuses have seen a steady decrease in the amount of minority students enrolling in each year’s freshman class. Read more...

Members of the Students First! slate have remained tight-lipped about the students who will run for next year’s undergraduate student government under their slate, but the most likely candidate for president is Allende Palma/Saracho, the current internal vice president. Read more...

Research partners from Israel, Egypt and the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute have collaborated to combat substance abuse in the Middle East. The researchers spoke Tuesday about their efforts to gather data about drug abuse in Israel and Egypt, and the cultural and political hurdles of working together in the Middle East. Read more...

As much as people would like to think and argue that racism does not exist anymore at UCLA, Bret Polish believes it does. So he did something about it. Read more...

Gabrielle Spiegel, a professor at Johns Hopkins University with an exceptional knowledge of medieval French history, will soon face the task of defending the humanities at UCLA. Read more...