DURBAN, South Africa ­””mdash; When I told people I was studying abroad in South Africa, many of them reacted to the effect of, “Isn’t that dangerous?” or “You know people in South Africa have AIDS, right?” After I arrived and decided to go into downtown Durban to buy groceries, many South Africans, especially white South Africans, responded similarly ““ “Don’t go, it’s dodgy” ““ and then proceeded to relate multiple stories of people getting mugged or killed. Read more...

We, the undersigned faculty from the Department of Neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, would like to express our support for Professor Dario Ringach and his family. Read more...

The young man at the Rite Aid counter raised an eyebrow. I had just dropped 12 bottles of diet pills and some cough syrup onto the counter. Read more...

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While students are away from campus this summer, Bruins United’s abuse of the student government appointment process in appointing unqualified individuals to represent the entire undergraduate student body is going unnoticed. Read more...

UCLA deserves a full and honest explanation of the activities of its student government, and I hope with this submission to clear up what happened at the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting last week. Read more...

The submission by UCLA Vice Chancellor of Research Roberto Peccei (“Extremists target legitimate research,” Aug. 21) suggests only terrorists protest the use of animals in research. Read more...