The three musicians met late one January afternoon at a café in Hollywood after finding each other on Craigslist. Daniel Gall, an undergraduate music student, had a proposition for the two strangers, sisters Claire and Anna Temin: He wanted to compose a piece for their local ensemble, Rue 22, to play. Read more...

Forget the usual culture shocks that students experience abroad ““ just participating in family dinners every night can be a novel cultural experience for an American student learning economics in Korea. Read more...

Around UCLA, a number of students who sport white earphones while they go about their business are participants in a music industry transformation. These white earphones are the trademark of Apple’s line of MP3 players which dominate the market. Read more...

UCLA’s Jacqueline Nguyen, who had hoped her provisional mark in the pole vault would qualify her for this week’s NCAA Indoor Championships, learned Monday evening that it was not good enough. Read more...

Former UCLA Willed Body Program employee Ernest Nelson announced Monday the release of a book detailing his experiences while working for the university. The book, titled “Willing Bodies: Inside the UCLA Willed Body Program,” would accuse the UCLA program of participating in the sale of body parts, a practice that the university has said it had no knowledge of at the time, according to Nelson’s Web site. Read more...

A labor dispute between the Coalition of Union Employees and the University of California could end as soon as today. The UC submitted a final offer to the union on March 3, though as of late Monday it had yet to accept or decline the offer. Read more...

Graduate students neglected in reporting It is surprising to me how frequently graduate student stories are ignored. Graduate students make up almost one-third of the students on this campus, and I don’t understand why the Daily Bruin seems to think we don’t exist. Read more...