Financial aid to cover insurance For UCLA students on financial aid, the Financial Aid Office will add $415 to its per-student budget to cover additional costs which may be brought on by university-required health insurance. Read more...

By Kelly Rayburn Daily Bruin Senior Staff As California enters into the second week of the fiscal year without a budget and state lawmakers work out some kinks in Sacramento, funding for the University of California hangs in the balance. Read more...

  RAYLEEN HSU Demonstrators gather in front of the Federal Building in Westwood on Sunday to remember the anniversary of a dorm raid in Tehran, Iran. Read more...

  COURTNEY STEWART/Daily Bruin Jermaine Taj Ausmore (left) and others listen to Professor Mary Helen Washington of the University of Maryland speak in Hershey Hall. By Rachel Makabi Daily Bruin Contributor When Richard Yarborough attended Michigan State University as an undergraduate student in the early 1970s, he never encountered any African American professors. Read more...

By Kelly Rayburn Daily Bruin Senior Staff The National Education Association created a task force last week to look into developing educational materials on the struggles of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and staff after withdrawing a resolution which aimed to make education more inclusive to LGBT students. Read more...

Photos by COURTNEY STEWART/Daily Bruin Melody Jackson from Culver City (left) and Tracy Ann Laky from Johannasburg, South Africa create flags to represent themselves for the Soze Project. Read more...

UCLA chancellor celebrates big day Chancellor Albert Carnesale celebrated his 65th birthday Monday. His more modest beginnings originate in Bronx, New York where he grew up in a tenement. Read more...