Thursday, April 9

Briefs

UCLA will host symposium on health care The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA will present a health care symposium entitled “The Business of Medicine: Challenges to Professionalism” on Saturday, Feb. Read more...




Letters to the Editor

Levy has myopic vision of God In Adir Levy’s column “Pondering divinity: a good way to spend time,” (Jan. 29) he is presumably referring to the Judeo-Christian God when he exhorts us to consider whether God exists. Read more...


Editorial: Professor bias doesn’t always hinder learning

The question of whether students’ education is compromised by the political biases of their professors has come up recently in various media. Concern emerges from the belief that students will mold their intellect and ideology around the ideas communicated by their professors, rather than formulate their own belief system based on an unbiased education. Read more...


Q & A with James Heath

UCLA chemistry and biochemistry professor James Heath, co-founder of the California Nanosystems Institute and recently named to the Scientific American top 50 visionaries in science, sat down last week for an interview with the Daily Bruin: DB: Working in new science like nanotechnology, do you often find yourself having to describe to people what you do? Read more...


Soundbites

Zwan “Mary, Star of the Sea” Reprise/Warner Bros. Hey, remember the Smashing Pumpkins? No, not that bizarre mumu-wearing gothic melodrama factory that put out “MACHINA/The Machines of God.” I’m talking about the real Pumpkins, the band that rocked our 13-year-old lives with jangly-guitared anthems like “Today,” “Mayonaise” and “Tonight, Tonight.” Well, there are those of us who haven’t forgotten them, one of whom seems to be Billy Corgan himself. Read more...