New kid on the block By Eric BranchSummer Bruin Staff After sizing up his opponent, anticipating the shot and timing the block, Jelani McCoy always has a split second to make a decision before swatting away another basketball. The first option is more glamorous and appealing – throw the ball somewhere in the second deck […]
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The Net
The Net By Colburn Tseng This suspense-thriller, the first of three upcoming movies to jump on the Internet band-wagon, makes several wrong turns while negotiating the Information Superhighway, and the result is less than pretty. Sandra Bullock stars as Angela Bennett, a reclusive program tester who becomes entangled in a massive plot to undermine the […]
Clueless
Clueless By Colburn Tseng Movie titles like Clueless and Dumb and Dumber are the snide critic’s dream. Big, bold sentences filled with clever, cutting puns march through the mind at a steady pace begging to grace the printed page. But alas, snide cleverness will have to wait because Clueless is neither dumb nor dumber. Light-hearted, […]
Protests explode in wake of decision
By Patrick KerkstraSummer Bruin Staff SAN FRANCISCO – They chanted. They marched. They cried and were arrested. But in the end, the sudden flare of student and community activism was not enough to reverse the decision of the governor-appointed UC Regents, who chose to end the university’s 30-year-old affirmative action policies. For two days, students […]
Regents end UC affirmative action policies
Regents end UC affirmative action policies By Phillip CarterSummer Bruin Staff SAN FRANCISCO – After a 12-hour meeting in which they were bullied by politicians, besieged by protesters, and evacuated by a bomb threat and a civil disturbance, the University of California Regents voted to stop admitting students, hiring professors, and awarding contracts on the […]
L.A. health care on the edge
By Gil Hopenstandand Patrick KerkstraSummer Bruin Staff Emilia Galan’s mother-in-law owes a great deal to County-USC hospital. The uninsured North Hollywood resident underwent surgery there Wednesday  a procedure which she could not have afforded at another hospital. "It’s hard to think what I would do," said Galan of where her ill relative would receive […]
Jalewalia reunites with old team
By Ross BersotSummer Bruin Staff After a one-year leave of absence, Amy Jalewalia is back with the UCLA women’s basketball program for a second tour of duty. Only, this time around she will be giving the orders instead of receiving them – as a part-time assistant on head coach Kathy Olivier’s staff. Graduating in 1994 […]