Thursday, April 2

ASUCLA allows students to compare textbook prices online

This quarter, UCLA students can compare prices of textbooks sold by different vendors on an Associated Students UCLA-launched website extension. The extension, introduced as part of the ASUCLA textbook website, lists options for course materials available from different companies such as Amazon, AbeBooks and Barnes & Noble. Read more...

Photo: ASUCLA launched a website to compile vendors and offer cheaper textbooks to UCLA students. (Zoe Hessler/Daily Bruin)


Weekend BruinBus to shuttle students to key LA locations

Students will be able to take free Saturday BruinBus shuttles to one of three Los Angeles shopping districts beginning this weekend, UCLA officials said. The shuttles will take students to the Grove on Fairfax Avenue, downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue on a rotating basis beginning Saturday. Read more...


Students use architecture to create prosthetics

Daily Bruin Video goes behind the scenes of the think tank-style final for the Prosthetic Seminar: Architectural Probes, Cyborgs and Cybernetic Environments. During the fall quarter final, students present a redesign of specific body parts with the goal of enhancing a human’s basic function. Read more...

Photo: (Noor Gill/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Students start Bruin Shelter for Westwood homeless population

Louis Tse didn’t always live out of his car. Nine months ago, he forfeited his Westwood apartment to fund a shelter for those who are not homeless by choice. Read more...

Photo: Louis Tse (left) and Luke Shaw (right), both doctorates in mechanical engineering, are working to create a student-run shelter at a church near campus by next fall. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)


USAC recap – Jan. 5

The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Read more...


Bruin Republicans endorse Marco Rubio for presidential election

More than 40 members of student group Bruin Republicans attended a vote which endorsed Marco Rubio in the upcoming presidential election at their weekly club meeting Tuesday night. Read more...

Photo: Members of the student group Bruin Republicans vote to select the presidential candidate they want to endorse in the upcoming elections. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)