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Library recognizes top student book collectors Students display literature on varied interests for awards By Michael Howerton Awarding recognition and prizes to students for their book collecting, UCLA held its 47th annual Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Competition Wednesday. This year, only six collections were entered into the competition ­ three graduate and […]

SAGE strikes for university recognition Picketers ask students to remain off campus, get mixed reactions By Kimberly Mackesy The Student Association of Graduate Employees’ (SAGE) struggle for union recognition reached a new level Wednesday, when its long efforts culminated in the first graduate employee walkout at UCLA in recent history. The two-day walkout was held […]

USAC OKs two-year terms By Rashmi Nijagal Daily Bruin Staff In an effort to help strengthen students’ positions on the Associated Students of UCLA’s (ASUCLA) board of directors, the undergraduate student council joined the graduate student association last week by approving two-year appointments to the student association’s board. Members of the undergraduate council and the […]

Poetry bridges Mid-East conflict By Dina Weinberg Two men sat in front of a quiet group of 30 in a third-floor room of Ackerman Union. The crowd, consisting of a mix of older people and students, strained to hear their personal stories about the Middle Eastern conflict. Salem Jubran, a prominent Arab poet, and Sami […]

AGSM honors Mattel executive with leadership award By Laryssa Kreiselmeyer When Jill Barad became president and chief operating officer of Mattel Inc., she oversaw the mass marketing of Barbie dressed up as Scarlett O’Hara on infomercials. That venture earned Mattel $30 million. Since Barad became marketing director for the Barbie doll in 1982, sales doubled […]

Northwestern students fast for ethnic studies By Nancy Hsu Daily Bruin Senior Staff On May 25, 1993, five students, a professor and three community members pitched their tents outside Murphy Hall to protest for the establishment of a Chicano studies department. Armed with water bottles, they fasted for 13 days until activists and administrators compromised […]

GSA: council representatives discuss their roles By Betty Song In a corner on the third floor of Kerckhoff Hall, surrounded by undergraduate student government, the cabinet of the Graduate Students Association (GSA) carries out its executive duties. But a history of low voter turnout at the graduate polls, with less than 10 percent last year, […]