A resolution geared at increasing student involvement in a community service program unanimously passed at Tuesday night’s meeting of the undergraduate student government. The Resolution in Support of Bruin Up Books, co-sponsored by three members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, is intended to move the location of the community service program from the dorms to the general campus where more students will have access to it. Read more...
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February 11, 9:00 pm
Bruin Up Books goes from Hill to campus
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February 11, 9:00 pm
Students can apply to have voice heard, vote in regent post
When fees go up and services go down at the University of California, as they often do during a budget crisis, many question the decisions of the university’s administrators. Read more...
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February 11, 9:00 pm
BruinGo! co-pay to stay
BruinGo!, the program allowing anyone with a BruinCard to swipe it and ride the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus for a reduced fare, is here to stay, and so are the changes introduced in fall 2003. Read more...
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February 11, 9:00 pm
Writing the book on Democratic primaries
What started as a paper turned into a book. Graduate student Marty Cohen had been writing a paper on primary elections when he and political science professor John Zaller saw potential for a bigger project. Read more...
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February 11, 9:00 pm
Lobbyists out of Congress: a new low
Something’s rotten in Washington, D.C. The American political system is drowning in a pool of bull. The ways in which our country is dominated by wealthy special interests are numerous enough to fill a dozen books, and The Bruin doesn’t pay me enough to write that much (Actually, I don’t get paid at all.) So here’s just one example. Read more...
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February 10, 9:00 pm
Teach for America seeks Bruin applicants
Several UCLA graduates will join thousands of graduates across the country who have decided to take the problem of educational inequity into their own hands. There are hopes that close to 200 Bruins will become educators next fall by participating in Teach for America, a federal educational program geared toward teaching low-income students. Read more...
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February 10, 9:00 pm
Persian emigrants remember impacts of revolution
Twenty-four years ago today, the citizens of Iran experienced a major political upheaval: The progressive, secular government of the Shah was replaced by the far more rigid and conservative government of Ayatollah Khomeini. Read more...