Cat Power “You Are Free” Matador Records Semi-effective sad music is easy to make ““ you know that. All that’s needed is a pretty melody and some nice effects to get a song that resonates emotionally, regardless of its superficiality. Read more...

The four ethnic research centers at UCLA will unveil a proposal today asking the university for additional faculty to help the centers keep pace with California’s growing minority population. Read more...

A group of UCLA law students will file a Supreme Court brief describing their support for affirmative action today, in response to a lawsuit over the University of Michigan’s admissions policy. Read more...

The student commissioner in charge of addressing finance-related issues plans to launch an online housing index by the end of the month to help students hunt for apartments. Read more...

SAN FRANCISCO ““ In what was billed as “the weekend that stopped the war,” tens of thousands of protesters massed in the heart of Hollywood on Saturday and in downtown San Francisco on Sunday, marking two day’s worth of demonstrations in over 600 cities in 60 countries around the globe ““ the largest-ever coordinated worldwide anti-war event. Read more...

SAN FRANCISCO ““ They seem to spring up overnight. They travel by train, car, bus, plane, bicycle or foot. They come in ones, twos, threes, small groups or massive armies. Read more...

New evidence has surfaced possibly linking UCLA researchers John Fahey and Najib Aziz to controversial malariotherapy experiments conducted by the Heimlich Institute, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Read more...