The United Auto Workers union has worried many UCLA faculty and students with its announcement that University of California teaching assistants are going on strike this week. Read more...

In what has become the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, sub-Saharan Africa alone is home to more than 3 million HIV/AIDS-related deaths during 2003 ““ twice the number of the rest of the world combined. Read more...

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...