Tuesday, July 14

In the news:

Laboring in uncertainty

Staff members working under the University of California Institute of Labor and Employment continue to go to work every day coordinating research and educational programs, knowing that in only a few months, many of them will be jobless. Read more...


Group sacrifices principles for politics

Last weekend, I joined hundreds of students at UCLA to participate in a convention of the California College Republicans. Many in the crowd had flown or driven to our campus with the same zeal and ambitions of the stereotypical student activist. Read more...


Offbeat briefs

Town may soon seize cars of parking violators BLOOMSBURG, Pa. “”mdash; Officials in this northeastern Pennsylvania town have a message for scofflaws: Pay your parking tickets, or the next car you buy may be your own. Read more...


Briefs

UC study details smoke’s effects on a child’s healing A child’s ability to heal from cuts, burns or infections could be slowed by exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke, a new study shows. Read more...


Speaks out

Should the Supreme Court leave the “under God” clause in the Pledge of Allegiance? Laura Schrupp Third-year, psychology “I believe church and state should be separate. Read more...


Feature photo

THI DAO/Daily Bruin Taking a spring break | Jenna Barto, a fourth-year psychology student, Lauren Sonneman, a fourth-year sociology student, and Lyndsay Campbell, a fourth-year world arts and cultures student, enjoy the early spring weather. Read more...


Letter to the editor

Diversity requirement essential for UCLA The Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity wishes as strongly as possible to support the implementation of a diversity requirement. We commend the undergraduate council for launching a proposal last year, and we support the efforts of the Academic Affairs Commission to advance a diversity requirement at UCLA, the only University of California campus lacking one. Read more...