CHRIS BACKLEY Jazz History Professor Gerald Wilson plays the piano between classes in Dickson. Wilson has been in the jazz scene for 50 years. By Lisa Klassen Daily Bruin Contributor Behind the eyes of Gerald Wilson, a jazz history professor in the Ethnomusicology Department, are more than 50 years of performing with legendary jazz musicians and his own orchestra, five Grammy nominations, and several years of teaching. Read more...

By My Yen La Daily Bruin Contributor Many humanities and social science professors not working toward tenure earn about the same salary as baggage porters, according to a Coalition on the Academic Workforce report. Read more...

  EDWARD LIN After 10 years, Norman Abrams, vice chancellor of Academic Personnel, is leaving his office. He will return to teaching in a year. Read more...

  MIKE CHIEN UCLA Law School outreach executive director Leo Trujillo spends much of his time figuring out ways to increase minority representation. By Afshin Marashi Daily Bruin Contributor Law School outreach director Leo Trujillo and associate director Tony Tolbert are a couple of law school Don Quixotes. Read more...

  CATHERINE JUN Passers-by pause Friday to look at the black shrouds that covered the statues in the Sculpture Garden for World AIDS Day. By Bimal Rajkomar Daily Bruin Reporter The only international day of coordinated action against HIV/AIDS ““ Dec. Read more...

By Ruby Jain Daily Bruin Contributor A forum sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center last week discussed how many Asian Americans feel they have been framed as a group to be feared by the media. Read more...

CALPIRG lobbies for emissions reduction Representatives from the California Public Interest Research Group are lobbying Gov. Gray Davis to support a Zero Emission Vehicle Program which requires 10 percent of new cars sold by 2003 to be either zero or low emission. Read more...