Intellects were stirred and mouths watered Thursday night at an archaeology open house in the Fowler Museum on campus. Students, faculty and the general public got the chance to see archaeology in action and listen to a lecture on the origins and history of chocolate. Read more...

After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the subsequent economic downturn, a swift, but often overlooked, backlash against immigrants occurred. This treatment, while certainly betraying the United States’ best ideals, has actually been a staple of U.S. Read more...

Focus shouldn’t be on SARS’ economic impact I was utterly disgusted while reading Dr. Tiejun Huang’s misleading submission, “China’s economy safe despite SARS” (May 23).  While only cursorily mentioning SARS’ impact on the citizens of China and the international community, Huang instead asserts that SARS will not affect China’s economy in the long-term. Read more...

Currently UCLA waives student fees for many of its teaching assistants and readers, graduate students who are left to educate undergraduates at a huge university where professors can’t do all the teaching. Read more...

UCLA hasn’t yet granted employment to subcontracted parking workers, but the workers are determined to let the university’s chief administrator ““ along with the rest of the school ““ know they mean business. Read more...

After years of battling to get a diversity requirement implemented at UCLA, advocates finally saw a glimmer of support from a prominent Academic Senate committee. Last week, the Undergraduate Council ““ one of 22 Senate committees ““ pledged to revisit the question of how to implement the proposal next year. Read more...

A group of UCLA students and their community members gathered Wednesday night to hear from one man who escaped from one of North Korea’s infamous prison camps. Read more...