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Cosby reaffirms plan to speak at UCB graduation Comedian Bill Cosby confirmed through his agent last week that he still plans to speak at UC Berkeley’s convocation ceremony in May. Campus organizers said yesterday that the move will help them complete their plans for the university-wide graduation ceremony. It had been unclear since the shooting […]

Thursday, February 6, 1997 Royce Hall is still undergoing interior seismic upgrading. Trucks enter the site at the Royce upper loading dock. Workers direct trucks and pedestrians. Completion is tentatively scheduled by the end of Fall Quarter 1997. Construction continues at the Brain Mapping building, which is located across the street from the MacDonald building […]

Thursday, February 6, 1997 HIV: Study shows protease inhibitors hold great promise for attacking virus in pediatric casesBy Kathryn Combs Daily Bruin Contributor Parents of the ’90s have to keep a close eye on various aspects of their children’s health: immunizations, teaching healthy eating habits, pollution, and increasingly, HIV education and treatment. According to the […]

Thursday, February 6, 1997 CHANCELLOR: Debate continues in whether selection process should be public or privateBy Patrick Kerkstra Daily Bruin Senior Staff When Chancellor Charles Young announced his retirement last February, the president of the American Council on Education said UCLA was losing "one of the most admired and respected figures in higher education." Politicians, […]

Thursday, February 6, 1997 HEALTH CARE: Reductions could mean low quality care, less time for research, educationBy Hannah Miller Daily Bruin Contributor Doctors usually don’t have much time for political activism. So when the leading trade association for eye doctors recently demanded that "Ophthalmology must speak with one voice," it heralded a major crisis in […]

Thursday, February 6, 1997 EDUCATION: Faculty appalled by poor quality of students’ writingBy Brooke Olson Daily Bruin Staff How to write a topic sentence. Staff and faculty members believe this should have been mastered in high school or, at the very least, learned in an English 3 class freshman year. So how is it that […]

Journal of Medicine features UCLA study A Feb. 6 article of the New England Journal of Medicine describes how researchers at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA and two other cancer centers have discovered a way to dramatically reduce the likelihood of life-threatening bleeding for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The discovery involves quickly restoring […]