CHRIS BACKLEY/Daily Bruin Hatem Bazian speaks at a Muslim Students Association conference Sunday evening about religion and culture. By Todd Belie Daily Bruin Contributor Several prominent Islamic figures advocated greater activism in the Muslim community during the “Shaping Our Perspective” conference at UCLA Sunday evening. Read more...

By Karen Albrecht and Michael Falcone Daily Bruin Senior Staff Twenty-eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, President George W. Bush signed a memorandum Monday cutting off aid to international family planning groups that provide support for abortions. Read more...

By Timothy Kudo Daily Bruin Senior Staff Across the nation, 76.1 percent of this year’s freshman class is white, 73.4 percent want to be very well off financially, and 12.1 percent are worried they won’t have enough money to graduate from college, according to a report released by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. Read more...

  PATIL ARMENIAN/ Daily Bruin Senior Staff Jennifer Jacobs signs a card to support CALPIRG next to Merriah Fairchild, a CALPIRG intern coordinator. CALPIRG is opposed to BP’s desire to drill for oil in northern Alaska. Read more...

By Karen Albrecht Daily Bruin Contributor In France, “genocide” now officially describes the death of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks, after landmark French legislation passed Jan. Read more...

  MARY CIECEK/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Patrons of L.A. Fitness Center in Westwood workout and watch George W. Bush be inaugurated as the nation’s 43rd president. Read more...