By Sarah Lazur Daily Bruin Contributor Blood drives present opportunities for students to ditch their fear of needles and perform a lifesaving deed. The Rieber Hall and Saxon Suites quarterly blood drive will take place today in the Rieber Hall Fireside Lounge from 2 to 7 p.m. Read more...

Appeals court upholds Crawford’s conviction A federal appeals panel on Tuesday upheld the conviction of the former director of student counseling at UCLA. Jane Crawford was sentenced in 1999 to five months in prison for stealing a valuable oil painting from her employer and selling it to a New York City art gallery for $200,000 in 1994. Read more...

  CHRIS BACKLEY/Daily Bruin Hatem Bazian speaks at a Muslim Students Association conference Sunday evening about religion and culture. By Todd Belie Daily Bruin Contributor Several prominent Islamic figures advocated greater activism in the Muslim community during the “Shaping Our Perspective” conference at UCLA Sunday evening. Read more...

By Karen Albrecht and Michael Falcone Daily Bruin Senior Staff Twenty-eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, President George W. Bush signed a memorandum Monday cutting off aid to international family planning groups that provide support for abortions. Read more...

By Timothy Kudo Daily Bruin Senior Staff Across the nation, 76.1 percent of this year’s freshman class is white, 73.4 percent want to be very well off financially, and 12.1 percent are worried they won’t have enough money to graduate from college, according to a report released by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. Read more...

  PATIL ARMENIAN/ Daily Bruin Senior Staff Jennifer Jacobs signs a card to support CALPIRG next to Merriah Fairchild, a CALPIRG intern coordinator. CALPIRG is opposed to BP’s desire to drill for oil in northern Alaska. Read more...

By Karen Albrecht Daily Bruin Contributor In France, “genocide” now officially describes the death of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks, after landmark French legislation passed Jan. Read more...