Wednesday, April 3, 1996 Council sidesteps proposal to hold voting in one areaBy Brooke Olson Daily Bruin Staff With spring elections quickly approaching, the undergraduate government is busy fine-tuning the details of this year’s campaign season. On Tuesday night, the council was successful in retaining polling booths for its campus-wide election on March 1 and […]
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Jazzing up the walls
JUSTIN WARREN/Daily Bruin David Borgo (saxophone player) and Brandon Penn (painter) participate in "Spontaneous Combustion of Music and Art" at Kerckhoff Art Gallery, an interaction designed for musicians and artists to feed off the creative expressions of one another.
New standards released for history lessons
Wednesday, April 3, 1996 By Rachanee Srisavasdi Daily Bruin Staff UCLA’s National Center for History released new standards today for teaching history in K-12 Â a revised version that will aid school districts in refocusing their current history curriculum. The standards, divided into U.S. and world history, are voluntary guidelines distributed to 17,000 school districts […]
Anywhere, anytime
Wednesday, April 3, 1996 Students increasingly find pagers a necessity to keep communication lines openBy Karen Duryea Daily Bruin Staff It’s been dubbed the "electronic leash," keeping its carrier linked to the world 24 hours a day. It far surpasses the homely little answering machine that now spends most of its solitary life unused. The […]
Proposition 203 provides much-needed funds for UCLA
Wednesday, April 3, 1996 Seismic retrofitting, capital improvements now have green light By John Digrado Daily Bruin Staff With last week’s passage of Proposition 203, California voters gave UCLA planners the go-ahead for several campus capital improvement projects. The bond initiative sets aside $39.2 million for 10 seismic correction projects at UCLA, some of which […]
Baseball unable to overcome Titan strength
Wednesday, April 3, 1996 Bruins hold fast for five innings, Fullerton steps up to capture 18-8 winBy Brian Purcell Daily Bruin Contributor Tuesday night’s baseball game between No. 10 UCLA and No. 1 Cal State Fullerton was a close, hard-fought game for about five innings. After that, the flood gates opened and the Bruins were […]
Blank makes name for himself
Wednesday, April 3, 1996 By Yoni Tamler Daily Bruin Staff Jeff Blank’s sanctum is a perch high above home plate, where his vigilant mind frantically absorbs all the events imaginable on a baseball diamond. Here in the press box, his feet tucked awkwardly in a chair or shuffling nervously in his oversized tennis shoes, Blank […]