ANGIE LEVINE/Daily Bruin Students sing during a commemoration ceremony of UCLA alumnus Thien Minh Ly. Ly was stabbed to death while rollerblading in 1996. By Jessica Chung Daily Bruin Contributor About 150 students commemorated the death of former Vietnamese Student Union president and hate crime victim Thien Minh Ly with a candlelight march and vigil Wednesday night. Read more...

Event will look at slavery’s effects Kicking off Black History Month, the Center for African American Studies will host a two-day colloquium this weekend. The event will begin tonight in Haines Hall with remarks from Darnell Hunt, director of UCLA’s Center for African American Studies, Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, vice-chancellor of UCLA’s graduate division and former state Sen. Read more...

By Jamie Hsiung Daily Bruin Contributor Resident hall students can relive some grade school memories by donating their favorite childhood books to Los Angeles-area public schools. Read more...

  PRIYA SHARMA/Daily Bruin Chancellor Albert Carnesale speaks with the faculty at the James West Alumni Center in an annual town hall meeting held Wednesday. By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Staff Chancellor Albert Carnesale talked budget, campus security and academics with university staff during an annual town hall meeting Wednesday. Read more...

By Terri Aquino Daily Bruin Contributor Using components no wider than a few atoms, UCLA professor James Heath, along with Hewlett Packard, have patented a new process of creating a small but energy efficient microchip that could replace the silicon-based chips currently in computers. Read more...

By Crystal Betz Daily Bruin Contributor The UCLA Library will have to convert its ORION2 database ““ which holds records for more than 7.2 million books and 90,000 magazines and academic journals ““ to a new system. Read more...

Click Here to See Larger Image By Noah Grand Daily Bruin Reporter The UC should abandon the SAT and develop a new test that reflects California’s high school curriculum by 2006, according to an Academic Senate committee report released yesterday. Read more...