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Grad TAs ‘teach out’ for recognition SAGE members hold outdoor classrooms, office hours in protest By Phillip Carter Daily Bruin Senior Staff In an effort to gain recognition for their fledgling union, UCLA graduate students are holding classes and office hours outside this week in a "non-militant" protest against the university. Leaders of the Student […]

Gladiator tackles grad education Reherman gives ‘hawk’-eye view of economics in series By Allyssa Lee Imagine a teaching assistant from the graduate school of economics working on his doctorate, yet smashing heads with unsuspecting contestants in front of a screaming crowd on national television during afternoons and the summer months. And after he’s done, he […]

ROTC takes to the field UCLA Army ROTC members spent a weekend polishing leadership skills and tackling survival drills. After that, and a 500-foot climb, Bruin Walk is easy. By Phillip Carter Daily Bruin Senior Staff The shortest distance between two points is a straight line ­ unless there’s a 500-foot mountain in your path. […]

Suicide ad proves to be untrue Researcher poses as suicidal student to garner information By Lucia Sanchez Daily Bruin Senior Staff A Daily Bruin classified ad claiming to seek help before the advertiser committed suicide drew some campus concern before it was discovered to be an attempt at gathering research data. After the classified ad […]

Service group brings ‘hope’ to India’s needy By Nancy Hsu Daily Bruin Senior Staff Chetan Panwala’s been to India several times. He’s seen crowds of people lying on city sidewalks, poverty in the villages and beggar children deliberately mutilated to invoke sympathy from those with a little money to spare. But instead of sitting around […]

Re-laying the foundation: then and now ’90s construction creates same look as ’20s, but incites different reaction By Michael Howerton The noises of construction ­ crews yelling to each other, trucks beeping and metal and brick clanging ­ compete with lectures in the classrooms and students’ conversations on campus. New walls and detours appear daily […]

ASUCLA to provide user-friendly network New World Wide Web site brings students services and information By Patrick Kerkstra Are you lost in the maze of the Internet? Do you keep forgetting the difference between Ben, IZZY, and function key three? The associated students of UCLA may have the ball of string to help guide you […]