As hospitals across California struggle to maintain efficiency during a severe nursing shortage, UCLA Medical Center looks on with an ominous sense of foreboding. The medical center currently has enough nurses to provide adequate patient treatment, but UCLA administrators are bracing for significant reductions in its nursing supply in the near future. Read more...

It’s 1 a.m. on a nondescript Thursday, and the line for Puzzles Eatery is out the door. As a BruinCard swipes with an affirmative beep and order numbers are yelled out one after another, students chatter excitedly in anticipation of the burgers, burritos and french fries soon to be filling their stomachs. Read more...

As midterms approach, some students are finding that they have to change their schedules in order to accommodate evening midterms conflicting with their class schedules. Yasmin Bholat, a second-year neuroscience student, dropped her Life Science 3 course which had an evening midterm so she could continue to take a chemistry lab course scheduled for the same time as her midterm. Read more...

A student was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly harassing members of a student group embroiled in a campaign to discredit the Chicana/o student group MEChA. Grant Lopez, a 34-year-old UCLA student, was arrested late Wednesday morning under the charge of robbery, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Read more...

After 30 years as a local favorite among students, Westwood residents and Hollywood stars, the Butterfly Bakery has closed its doors for good. Located on Westwood Boulevard, a block and a half south of Wilshire Boulevard, “The Butterfly” was famous for its homemade pastries and an atmosphere not often encountered in the corporate landscape of Westwood restaurants. Read more...

The Jewish Student Union base budget appeal has once again put the process of student group funding under scrutiny. Although JSU certainly provides valuable programming to the student body and merits Undergraduate Students Association Council funding, the Judicial Board should not alter JSU’s funding status. Read more...

The Bruin Republicans never should have launched an attack against MEChA. The content and style of their campaign are both insulting and nonproductive. The BR leadership took its complaints to Bruin Walk and the undergraduate student government after only minimal attempts to communicate with MEChA. Read more...