Swastikas and speeches filled with racial slurs greet anyone who walks through the Kerckhoff Art Gallery this week, where the Undergraduate Students Association Council has set up an exhibit on hate crime as part of its Campus Safety Awareness Week. Read more...

In response to student reports of theft and other campus crimes, the Undergraduate Students Association Council is sponsoring a crime awareness week. “We want to educate students about resources that are available to them on and off campus,” said Gregory Cendana, USAC internal vice president. Read more...

After working with the issue of youth violence in Bosnia and Kosovo, Jorja Leap was inspired to come back to her hometown of Los Angeles and work on problems of youth violence in her own region. Read more...

Though Greenhouse, the new restaurant in Ackerman Union, is advertised as offering health food, there are currently no nutritional facts available to its patrons. Roy Champawat, Associated Students UCLA student union director, said ASUCLA does not have the software to “spit out nutritional information” for the new Greenhouse items. Read more...

When second-year public policy graduate students Sarah Simons and John Hellmann went to Pakistan over winter break, they found they were greeted by villagers who were just as eager to promote literacy as they were. Read more...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa went to Washington, D.C., last week to introduce new proposals for lowering urban poverty through education. Villaraigosa chairs a task force of major city mayors and called last week for the federal government to invest in education to fight poverty. Read more...

Elias Bongmba recalls a conversation he had with a friend from Bamenda, Cameroon, five years ago. The friend had been convinced by others in his town that the HIV/AIDS-related deaths of many of his family members were the result of witchcraft. Read more...