By Hemesh Patel Daily Bruin Senior Staff When UCLA’s Dr. Michael Gottlieb sent one of his researchers to find someone with an interesting disease to discuss 20 years ago, he ended up diagnosing the first case of AIDS. Read more...

By Karen Albrecht Daily Bruin Reporter Average grades are on the rise at all academic levels. But is today’s Bruin really more intelligent than students 30 years ago? Read more...

Fed to cut student loan interest rates AUSTIN, Texas “”mdash; The cost of financing a college education for approximately 15,000 University of Texas-Austin students could get less expensive when the Federal Reserve Board slashes interest rates on student loans July 1, the Daily Texan reported. Read more...

  MOHAMMAD ALAVI Faculty members expressed their views concerning raising minimum progress requirements in the College of Letters & Science at the Academic Senate meeting on Tuesday. Read more...

  MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Student Regent Justin Fong, shown here protesting SP-1 and 2 at Royce Hall on March 14, will step down from his post this week. Read more...

PATIL ARMENIAN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff A hungry leech begins to dine (top). Another leech gets full, leaves a trace of blood flowing, which is stopped by a cigarette. Read more...

By Marion Wise Daily Bruin Contributor To combat increasing prices of natural gas, the Associated Students of UCLA created an Energy Conservation Committee to implement ASUCLA’s plan to reduce its energy consumption by 15 percent, including regulating temperatures. Read more...