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Tiverton House provides patient, family comforts Local guest house shelters woman as she awaits life-saving transplant By Gil Hopenstand Daily Bruin Senior Staff Becky Hammond turns and stares out the window whenever a helicopter whisks by, wondering if it carries the lung donor for her mother, Martha Yates. UCLA doctors will alert Yates of a […]

Phi Beta Kappa honor society adds student subsidiary By Ben Gilmore Undergraduate students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa will now have a chance to mingle with each other at events designed to challenge the intellect. A student subsidiary was added on Oct. 10 to UCLA’s official Phi Beta Kappa chapter, which currently includes only faculty […]

Westwood receives candidate By James Thomas Snyder Daily Bruin Senior Staff Gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown visited Westwood Wednesday in an effort to woo local business owners, meet Village denizens and sell her plan for California’s economic recovery. Brown stopped first at City Bean Coffee on Lindbrook Street and talked to patrons and owner Gary Selzer. […]

Eating disorders affect many collegiates’ lives By Susan Ward In a recent TV interview, actress Tracy Gold recounted her battle with anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder. Several years ago, singer Karen Carpenter died from the same disease. Some people believe eating disorders are less common than they used to be. Glamour magazine recently conducted a […]

UCLA nursing program survives By Gil Hopenstand Daily Bruin Senior Staff UCLA remains the only UC school with an undergraduate nursing major. UCLA Nursing School faculty decided to admit another undergraduate class in 1995-96 by a vote of 19 to 2 with one abstention, school officials announced Wednesday. The new class will only have 32 […]

ROTC cadets face year of physical challenges By Lucia Sanchez Daily Bruin Staff Fourth-year civil engineering student and UCLA Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet Larry Leong said he looks forward to the rigorous outdoor training the corps will offer this year. "We have a lot of exciting events planned," said Leong, who is second in […]

UCLA considers SWAT team unnecessary By Lucia Sanchez Daily Bruin Staff College campuses are not immune to violent acts of crazed individuals. Four years ago, five University of Florida students were killed in their apartments by a serial killer stalking the college campus. In 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin, a disgruntled graduate […]