By Bruce Tran DAILY BRUIN REPORTER btran@media.ucla.edu  ANGIE LEVINE/Daily Bruin Staff Luciano Rodriguez, a skateboarding student from Don Bosco Tech. Some consider it to be a convenience, while others call it a nuisance. But both sides agree that it’s a contradiction in UCLA policy: While skateboards have been deemed illegal on campus, you can […]
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No Boom in the Wood
By Edward Chiao DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF echiao@media.ucla.edu  Fireworks light up the sky during a Fourth of July celebration last year. Daily Bruin File Photo The Fourth of July is only three days away, but it seems Westwood hasn’t taken notice. This year, the holiday falls on a weeknight when students have to study. […]
Police almost run over by alleged car thieves
By Robert Salonga DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF rsalonga@media.ucla.edu  University police are searching for two car theft suspects who allegedly tried to run over two officers in a haste to escape from Lot 1 early on the morning of June 25. The officers fired shots at the car to protect themselves, said UCPD Lieutenant Manny […]
Past four years fraught with adversity
JASON LIU/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Thomas Soteros-McNamara tmcnamara@media.ucla.edu  This week, the Class of 2002 graduates and leaves behind a campus far removed from the atmosphere which greeted them in 1998. All the promise that the autumn of ’98 held evaporated, but not without a trail. The university proved to be a victim of its […]
Crimewatch
Petty Theft An unknown suspect removed jeans from a washing machine at 3195 Sepulveda on May 12, with losses totalling $200. Grand Theft Auto An unknown suspect removed a white 1996 Acura Integra, worth $14,000, from 10998 Roebling on Tuesday. An unknown suspected stole a white 2000 Toyota Tacoma from 10943 Ophir Drive May 16. […]
Crime Watch
Petty theft Three cell phones, three wallets and one parking permit were stolen during this time period, a total loss of $712. Grand theft Thursday night, $654 in parking permits were removed from a safe in Parking Services Office. Someone broke into a car parked in Lot 31, stealing a watch, camera and 400 CDs […]
Daily Bruin turns biased eye in USAC elections coverage
Ramirez is a fourth-year student with a double major in American literature and culture and Chicana/o studies, and minors in education and political science. Â By Erika Ramirez Along with many other Bruins, I read the articles covering the USAC elections throughout the past two weeks in the Daily Bruin and began to see a […]