For many UCLA students, sitting in a dentist’s chair means staring open-mouthed at someone decades older than they are. But when students go to the UCLA School of Dentistry, they may find dental students in their final years of study inspecting and fixing their teeth. As a way of providing cheaper dental care, students at […]
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Jewish students pass up campus dining
As Passover began at sunset last Wednesday, many Jewish students prepared to celebrate a tradition hundreds of years old. But because of limited kosher options in dining halls, some looked off campus for properly prepared food to observe the holiday. General Jewish dietary laws ““ also called kosher laws ““ forbid the consumption of the […]
New Daily Bruin editor in chief named
Correction appended At the Associated Students UCLA Communications Board meeting Monday night, third-year communication studies student Jeff Schenck was appointed to the position of editor in chief of the Daily Bruin for the 2006-2007 school year. The board made the decision after hearing the staff endorsement. The decision is a relative formality as the board […]
[Online Exclusive]: USAC implements new recycling program in De Neve
Since it seemed students would not go to the recycling bins, the undergraduate student government decided to bring the recycling bins to the students. Starting spring quarter, these bins will be placed in every dorm room in De Neve’s Evergreen and Fir buildings to promote recycling among students. A thousand trash-can-sized bins, funded by UCLA […]
Working at the happiest place on Earth
Glancing up at Royce Hall 50 years ago, the former UCLA student said he would never have imagined that five decades later he would be speaking to another generation of Bruins about his work at Disneyland. Marty Sklar, the vice chairman and principal creative executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, discussed his experience at UCLA and […]
Big Blue Bus listens to community’s complaints
As people raised their hands for an opportunity to express their complaints, a Big Blue Bus customer representative frantically jotted down bus riders’ comments about the system on poster paper. “My son has to wait 30 minutes to catch a bus home from school.” “If the bus is full, the driver won’t stop to let […]
Law conference addresses LGBT policies
One hundred and seventy-five lawyers, law students and advocates rose to their feet and roared with applause in a small lecture hall at the UCLA School of Law on Friday, in response to the Williams Institute’s “Fifth Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy” keynote address on the status of policy regarding lesbian, […]