Tuesday, May 5

Letters to the editor

Robles will enhance academic experience The Daily Bruin’s claim that I am less knowledgeable about academic policies is unfounded (“Schuster has realistic goals and the experience to back them up,” May 8). Read more...


Students, governor discuss fees freeze

California students have begun a series of meetings with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to discuss affordability at state colleges and universities in the midst of early campaigning for this fall’s gubernatorial election. Read more...



Series sends students out into the reel world

Deteriorated and forgotten heroic films, classic Hollywood movies and old home videos have come back to life at various screenings at UCLA. Providing students a glimpse into films from the silent era through the 1980s, Hollywood studios are working together with UCLA’s Film and Television Archive and the Moving Image Archive Studies graduate program to take restored films of the past and screen them to the public. Read more...


Facebook plays role in USAC campaigns

Students in years past have become used to the barrage of fliers and campaign slogans on campus that accompany elections for the undergraduate student government, but this year candidates have found a new way to advertise to UCLA voters. Read more...


[A Closer Look] An alternative view of education

Virginia Myers, a third-year American Indian student at UCLA, grew up in a home with no electricity or telephones and spent the first nine years of her education in a three-classroom schoolhouse on a reservation along the Klamath River in Northern California. Read more...


[A Closer Look] Looking beyond cliches

When asked about their experiences at UCLA, many American Indian students are quick to point out that each one of them has a different story. Katya Adachi, a third-year molecular, cellular and developmental biology student, grew up as an urban Indian in the San Francisco Bay Area and never lived on a reservation. Read more...