The first time Adam Vartanian, a fourth-year computer science and engineering student, encountered someone with AIDS, he was in kindergarten. Though he was not aware of it at the time, Vartanian’s elementary school teacher from kindergarten through second grade had contracted AIDS. Read more...

Looking back at my childhood, I remember how cool Michael Jackson used to be. Songs like “Bad” and “Beat It” were great, although I probably was exposed to the Weird Al parodies “Fat” and “Eat It” before the originals. Read more...

I love Southern California. I’ve lived in the Los Angeles area the majority of my life, and my outlook on the world has been shaped by this adopted home of mine. Read more...

Clark Kerr, the renowned University of California president who in the 1960s oversaw the system’s first tidal wave of enrollment and the Free Speech Movement that ultimately led to his firing, has died. Read more...

This 73-year-old woman has spent the better half of her life fighting for better labor conditions and justice for underrepresented workers. She has stood alongside activists such as Rev. Read more...

UCLA Hillel Director Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller will head to court today to meet with a court officer who will attempt to resolve an ongoing conflict between the rabbi and freelance journalist Rachel Neuwirth. Read more...

Protest sign not about race Michael Cox is reading way too much into the “soap” protest sign ““ whether intentionally trying to be misleading or out of plain old politically correct thinking. Read more...