MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Students who enroll in Medical Spanish 28A serve as translators at the Venice Family Clinic shown here. By Carolina Reyes Daily Bruin Contributor Some ethnic minorities around the Los Angeles area don’t receive ““ or are cautious about receiving ““ adequate health care. Read more...

By David Drucker Daily Bruin Reporter John Ashcroft was confirmed Thursday as the new United States attorney general, ending weeks of contentious debate on Capitol Hill and across the nation. Read more...

  BRIDGET O’BRIEN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Local policy expert Xandra Kayden speaks on term limits and energy deregulation during a briefing on L.A. and state problems. Read more...

  MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Former Vice President Al Gore, Chancellor Albert Carnesale and more than 20 faculty members met Wednesday at a faculty symposium on family-centered community development issues. Read more...

  CHRIS BACKLEY/Daily Bruin Mark Speare (foreground), of UCLA Health Care, hears hospital service workers voice their complaints Wednesday afternoon. By Benjamin Parke Daily Bruin Reporter A few dozen medical service staff crowded into an elevator lobby ““ some with turquoise work smocks sticking out from underneath their green union shirts. Read more...

  Photo Courtesy of UCLA Asian American Studies Center Royal Morales, former professor of Asian American Studies died Jan. 23 of a heart attack. Morales, known to many as "Uncle Roy," was 68. Read more...