Employees of the University of California have contributed more to John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign than employees in any other organization, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research group. Read more...

Last year, the black daughter of a former colleague of Vu Tran, director of UCLA undergraduate admissions, was faced with a quandary. She was accepted to UCLA, UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California, which offered her a full tuition scholarship. Read more...

It has been 10 years since the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, but crime is still rampant, unemployment rates are still high, and racism still exists. Read more...

The 1954 landmark court case Brown v. Board of Education called for the end of racial segregation in education. Still, it is common for students of similar backgrounds to practice a different kind of segregation on campus ““ to converge together in the form of ethnic-based student organizations or merely same race groups of friends. Read more...

People love to accuse the media of having biases. Liberal bias. Conservative bias. Corporate bias. But these biases dim in comparison to the media’s biggest problem ““ the great profit motive. Read more...

Rainy-day headlight bill likely to pass in California SACRAMENTO “”mdash; An assemblyman’s “˜”˜It oughta be a law contest” led the Assembly to pass a bill Monday making drivers turn on their headlights in bad weather. Read more...

Glynn Custred and Luke Massie would probably not agree on anything when it comes to the debate over affirmative action. But they would both agree the highest court is on their side. Read more...