TYSON EVANS Herb Wesson, from the district that will soon include UCLA, and his wife celebrate his inauguration as speaker of the State Assembly in Royce Hall, Friday. Read more...

UCR prof knows the Olympics As Thomas Scanlon watches the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, he will be pondering the past. A classics professor at UC Riverside, Scanlon is an expert on the first Olympics, which began in 776 B.C. Read more...

  Brenda Stevenson By Jenny Blake Daily Bruin Contributor The history department is in disarray after the chair unexpectedly resigned at Friday’s departmental meeting. History department chair Brenda Stevenson excused herself mid-meeting after a faculty discussion, graduate students said. Read more...

  Daily Bruin File Photo Kim Coss By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Staff The financial supports commissioner for the Undergraduate Students Association Council, resigned from office last week, citing personal issues, which she declined to specify. Read more...

By Hilaire Fong Daily Bruin Contributor While only 3 percent of doctors in America accessed the Internet in 1995, that number jumped to more than 90 percent last year, doctor George Lundberg said at a lecture Friday. Read more...

By Ellen Kang Daily Bruin Contributor More than 1.5 million Afghan orphans living in sub-poverty levels are victims of decades of wars, “the dark era of the Taliban,” and are the price paid for peace, say members of International Orphan Care. Read more...