Monday, July 13

In the news:

Network fights virus through art

On a recent trip to India, which now has more people living with HIV than any other country in the world, Professor David Gere spent time addressing some of the issues and stigmas of the disease through art. Read more...



UCLA’s discovery made history

Though 25 years have passed since he saw his first patient with AIDS, Dr. Michael Gottlieb, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said he remembers that patient in more detail than the patients he saw yesterday. Read more...


Bruins toast right to same-sex marriage

Hundreds of people filled Bruin Plaza on Friday, spilling onto the steps and roof of Ackerman Union, to watch Patricia Alford-Keating, a UCLA Student Psychological Services counselor, and her partner, Shannon Lea Keating, rededicate their lives to one another in a public ceremony. Read more...


Markets may open locally

A new farmers’ market is on its way to Brentwood while plans are in the works to bring a market back to Westwood Village, two months after the departure of the Westwood Village Farmers’ Market. Read more...


Editorial: UCLA's Worst: 3. Drop in minority enrollment yet again

Something is fundamentally wrong with UCLA’s admissions system when next year’s freshman class of 4,852 will contain only 96 black students. Despite recent systemwide increases, the overall decline in enrollment of some underrepresented ethnic groups at UCLA and the University of California system is nothing new ““ not since California voters passed Proposition 209 in 1997. Read more...