Category Archives: News

Virtual office hours connect professors, students By Jean May Chen Daily Bruin Contributor A year after its inception, Craig Merlic beheld his virtual office hours project and saw that it was good. Virtual office hours is well known to students that have taken courses in the chemistry and biochemistry department. The computer service supplements regular […]

Activism Through the Years History of UCLA rife with student political protests By Brooke Olson Daily Bruin Staff For more than 75 years, UCLA has reflected the world during times of political and social unrest. From the 1930s Communist Red Scare to the current 1996 affirmative action demonstrations, UCLA students have continually and loudly reacted […]

Author speaks out for reform West stresses need for ethnic history in general education By John Digrado Daily Bruin Staff Advocating more ethnic requirements in undergraduate education, distinguished author and education reform advocate Cornel West lectured to a nearly full Schoenberg Auditorium Thursday afternoon. West’s speech was one in a series of eight public discussions […]

Poll shows most faculty favor affirmative action Participation in vote by Academic Senate is low; apathy cited By Rachanee Srisavasdi Daily Bruin Contributor A majority of UCLA faculty members support a resolution to rescind the University of California regents’ affirmative action ruling, according to results from an Academic Senate mail ballot released yesterday. The Academic […]

Coalitions stand up to regents’ decisions By Patrick Marantal Daily Bruin Contributor Since their inception beginning in the 1960s, UCLA’s student advocacy groups have long been a hotbed of student activism. And with the controversial end of affirmative action policies, the organizations are once again fanning the flames of protest. UCLA’s Affirmative Action Coalition, composed […]

Female friends may give signs of true feelings Dear Darlene: I seem to have a pattern of becoming really good friends with a girl and then developing a wicked crush on her. But by then, the thought of having a relationship that is anything more than a friendship seems almost inappropriate – or at least […]

UCLA researcher finds drug to help cancer treatment By Tiffany McElroy Daily Bruin Contributor As a young boy, James Berenson fantasized about becoming a scientific explorer of the human body. At the age of 12, he lost his father to cancer, which propelled him to study medicine. As he started his medical career, his cousin […]