By Shauna Mecartea Daily Bruin Contributor Chairwoman S. Sue Johnson announced the recent resignation of Stephen Nakashima from the University of California Board of Regents Friday. Read more...

By Shauna Mecartea Daily Bruin Contributor The Veritas Forum will bring local faculty, students and artists together to discuss Christianity and its relation to all disciplines of life beginning today in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...

  Photos by JANA SUMMERS An Thai Bui, a post-doctorate student in molecular biology, performs a genetic engineering experiment. By Sharon Kim Daily Bruin Contributor Chances are, Americans are regularly consuming foods that have been genetically engineered without their knowledge. Read more...

  Michael Weiner Weiner is a fourth-year history and political science student. His column analyzing issues of interest to the UCLA community runs on Mondays. Send e-mail messages to [email protected]. Read more...

By Michaele Turnage Daily Bruin Contributor Concern for workers’ rights, the environment and publicly-owned services was the rallying cry of speakers at a teach-in Thursday night to inform students about the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Read more...

  Illustration by KRISTEN GILLETE/Daily Bruin By Carolina Reyes Daily Bruin Contributor There is a tale that 100 years ago, in an effort to debunk the superstition that setting sail on a Friday was bad luck, the British government put together a crew on Friday, selected a Captain named Jim Friday to command it and finally launched it on a Friday. Read more...

Initiative seeks to ban race data collection The man behind the 1996 voter-approved initiative that banned most state affirmative action programs wants voters to pass another initiative to stop the state from collecting racial information. Read more...