ALICE LAM Winston Doby, a former UCLA administrator, speaks with the Daily Bruin last year. By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Staff Settling into his new surroundings, Winston Doby knew it would take some time to adjust from life in Los Angeles to life in the Bay Area. Read more...

By Crystal Betz Daily Bruin Contributor The issue of access to higher education, specifically at the University of California, dominated discussion among elected officials, community activists and one UCLA professor at Wednesday’s forum. Read more...

  ANGIE LEVINE/Daily Bruin Students sing during a commemoration ceremony of UCLA alumnus Thien Minh Ly. Ly was stabbed to death while rollerblading in 1996. By Jessica Chung Daily Bruin Contributor About 150 students commemorated the death of former Vietnamese Student Union president and hate crime victim Thien Minh Ly with a candlelight march and vigil Wednesday night. Read more...

Event will look at slavery’s effects Kicking off Black History Month, the Center for African American Studies will host a two-day colloquium this weekend. The event will begin tonight in Haines Hall with remarks from Darnell Hunt, director of UCLA’s Center for African American Studies, Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, vice-chancellor of UCLA’s graduate division and former state Sen. Read more...

By Crystal Betz Daily Bruin Contributor The UCLA Library will have to convert its ORION2 database ““ which holds records for more than 7.2 million books and 90,000 magazines and academic journals ““ to a new system. Read more...

Click Here to See Larger Image By Noah Grand Daily Bruin Reporter The UC should abandon the SAT and develop a new test that reflects California’s high school curriculum by 2006, according to an Academic Senate committee report released yesterday. Read more...

By Jamie Hsiung Daily Bruin Contributor Resident hall students can relive some grade school memories by donating their favorite childhood books to Los Angeles-area public schools. Read more...