For the patient investor, stocks offer potentially enormous returns. In 1981, $10,000 invested in the Dow Jones would have grown to about $150,000 of the same purchasing power today, assuming all dividends were reinvested. Read more...

“˜Spinderella’ gives students a fresh angle on culture Deidra “Spinderella” Jones, the DJ for iconic female rap group Salt-N-Pepa, spoke to Scot Brown’s “Recent African American Urban History” course. Read more...

UCLA student Liza Mederos, who had hoped one day to create a foundation to help troubled youth, died Monday morning at the UCLA hospital. She was 26. Read more...

The No. 3 UCLA men’s golf team tied for sixth at the Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship over the weekend. The tournament was hosted by the Las Vegas Founders and was won by No. Read more...

Bruin Republicans wrong about MEChA We support MEChA de UCLA. We recently attended the annual Raza Youth Conference and found it very positive and helpful in motivating high school youth to pursue higher education. Read more...

To friends and family, former UCLA student Diana Chien was a loving person, a world traveler and a great high school basketball player. To the New York Post, as she took her own life, Chien was a chance to sell newspapers. Read more...

Reports on the UCLA cadaver scandal that ran as Yahoo News’s top stories last week are now filed in the “Oddly Enough” category. The L.A. Times’ stories now run in the California section, not the front page. Read more...