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Environmental crusader remembered Carson pioneered current ecological safety movement By Tatiana Botton Very few women have been as famous in the scientific domain as Rachel Carson. With her book "Silent Spring," she started an ecological revolution that continues today. To celebrate Earth Week at UCLA, the Women’s Resource Center organized yesterday a video presentation about […]

Grad union to vote on two-day walkout tonight By Betty Song At a general membership meeting tonight, walkout committee members of the Student Association of Graduate Employees (SAGE) will decide whether or not to call a two-day stike next week. A nine-member walkout committee was created and authorized at the last membership meeting in March […]

Students find ‘natural high’ at Health, Fitness Tour Traveling fair aims to encourage healthier lifestyle By Allyssa Lee Daily Bruin Staff As a person who enjoys the outdoors, Ahmed Jaffer tries to stay active in many physical events. "I like mountain climbing and rock climbing when we go to public parks like Sequoia," Jaffer said. […]

Board acts as ‘link’ to community By Laryssa Kreiselmeyer Lotfi Mansouri, general director of the San Francisco Opera and former artistic adviser to the Minister of Culture in Iran, originally came to UCLA to study medicine. Instead his tenor voice got him recruited for a musical production opposite Carol Burnett. As well as holding a […]

Roxane Marquez elected as Daily Bruin editor By Kimberly Mackesy Roxane Marquez, a fourth-year English/American Studies major, was elected the 1995-96 editor in chief of the Daily Bruin last night. The decision was announced yesterday by the student association’s Communications Board, which oversees and monitors student media. As part of the editor in chief’s duties, […]

Campaign to explore alleged police abuse External vice president’s office to gather complaints By Nancy Hsu Daily Bruin Senior Staff The undergraduate external vice president’s office kicks off a campaign today asking student government, city council members and Westwood merchants to force an investigation into alleged acts of police abuse incurred on the night of […]

Banking own blood is bad investment Study reveals the high costs of using autologous blood By Dina Weinberg Most people have heard that there are three ways to contract HIV: through unprotected sex, intravenous drug use and blood transfusions. This information sends an erroneous message to the public because contracting HIV or AIDS through a […]