Current events in the Israel-Palestine region may once again slip into the campus limelight this week with a series of events that are intended to illuminate the humanity and the plight of the Palestinian people. Read more...

The Laker Girls attracted attention. So did former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan. But Saturday morning, a huge crowd gathered at Drake Stadium not just to see the Laker Girls perform or to hear Riordan speak, but to celebrate a small group of people who had one thing in common: They were all cancer survivors. Read more...

The conversation on whether the U.S. judiciary is subject to the whims of politics began long before the Thursday law school forum on the subject. Terri Schiavo, who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years, became a household name when President Bush signed midnight legislation last month asking a federal court to intervene and determine whether Schiavo’s husband could remove her feeding tube. Read more...

A majority of the 2,000 UCLA members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union went on strike on Thursday. AFSCME members work in residential dining and housing services, and the Associated Students of UCLA campus restaurants. Read more...

After becoming the first team west of the Mississippi River to win the American Mock Trial Association national championship last year, the UCLA Mock Trial team went back to Iowa and won again this year, defeating Georgia Tech in the final round. Read more...

Current research being done by the UCLA AIDS Institute to address the problem of AIDS in Africa will be presented at a symposium today in Kaufman Hall. Read more...