By Shauna Mecartea Daily Bruin Contributor The Veritas Forum will bring local faculty, students and artists together to discuss Christianity and its relation to all disciplines of life beginning today in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...

By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Reporter The Undergraduate Students Association Council took major steps this week toward addressing its upcoming elections, as well as a deadline for revising its bylaws regarding student fee allocation. Read more...

  ANGIE LEVINE Elanor Lipat, an ethnomusicology graduate student, participates in an event addressing stereotypes about women and Islam. By Jennifer Reichert Daily Bruin Contributor Participants of Islamic Awareness Week celebrated women’s role in that culture with dancing on Bruin Walk and a poetry reading in Young Hall Wednesday night. Read more...

  MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Floor Director Matt Gorlic counts down before Andrew Masuda and fourth-year English student Melissa Magee go on air to launch UCLA TV. Read more...

By Marcelle Richards Daily Bruin Staff For the first time at UCLA, the library system may make fellowships available to graduate students if it succeeds in raising $500,000. Read more...

  Illustration by KRISTEN GILLETE/Daily Bruin By Carolina Reyes Daily Bruin Contributor There is a tale that 100 years ago, in an effort to debunk the superstition that setting sail on a Friday was bad luck, the British government put together a crew on Friday, selected a Captain named Jim Friday to command it and finally launched it on a Friday. Read more...

Initiative seeks to ban race data collection The man behind the 1996 voter-approved initiative that banned most state affirmative action programs wants voters to pass another initiative to stop the state from collecting racial information. Read more...