From a statistical perspective, UCLA is a relatively safe campus. But even in the absence of significant crime, the university should take a number of small steps toward improving student safety. Read more...

Dr. Milton Howard Miller, the longtime chairman of the department of psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and deputy medical director for the County of Los Angeles’ Department of Mental Health, died Wednesday after a long illness in his home in San Pedro. Read more...

For almost three weeks, students, young professionals and even a grandmother put their lives on hold to remember the lives of others. These Armenian-Americans walked the 215 miles from Fresno to Sacramento to honor those killed and displaced by Ottoman Turkey between 1915 and 1923 during the Armenian Genocide. Read more...

Affirmative action and privatization were the buzzwords at Thursday’s discussion panel at UCLA with Christopher Edley, the dean of the UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Read more...

Students will mail letters today to the University of California president and treasurer asking them to investigate the university’s financial holdings and relinquish stocks held in companies that do business in Sudan, if such investment is revealed in their investigation. Read more...

Election candidates for undergraduate student government say their major goals include issues such as equal representation, student empowerment and sustainability. And in the case of the Bruin Liberation Movement, the development of a caste system for faculty members denoted by colored polo shirts. Read more...

Switching off a light in the next room or tossing a used soda can in the recycle bin is much more routine than it was 35 years ago; a time when there were grassroots recycle campaigns, nonexistent clean air acts and warnings of the Great Lakes being polluted by oil refineries, paper mills and city sewage plants. Read more...