In a room lined with images from around the world, people from across the globe gathered Thursday to hear former deputy president of South Africa Jacob Zuma detail his struggles in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, stress the importance of unity, and speak on the issue of race in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read more...

Moments before the Senate confirmed John Roberts as the next chief justice of the United States in a 78-22 vote on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said the court “will embark upon a new era in its history, the Roberts era.” But just what that era will be like is still unknown. Read more...

Scott Waugh, the dean of social sciences who has served for longer than any other top administrator in the UCLA College, announced this week he will step down at the end of the school year. Read more...

Huey Lin, a Chinese language lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures department, is fighting to get her job back after being dismissed by her department for alleged unprofessional behavior. Read more...

UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale may be leaving his post as the head of the university, but he plans to return to UCLA as a faculty member and sit on the FBI’s National Security Higher Education Advisory Board. Read more...

John Roberts Jr. has received so much support as the next chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court that law Professor Grant Nelson said “you can bet your life savings he’ll be confirmed.” Though it is unlikely that many in the UCLA community will gamble on Roberts’ appointment, professors and students alike expect the Republican federal appellate judge to be confirmed by the Senate when his appointment is put to a vote today. Read more...

A UCLA Medical Center liver transplant patient at the top of the regional waiting list was denied receipt of an available liver when doctors at St. Read more...