By Peijean Tsai DAILY BRUIN [email protected] As discussion continues over whether UCLA should switch from a quarter to a semester calendar system, graduate students, particularly those who are teaching assistants, favor the semester system. Read more...

By Rachel Makabi DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF [email protected] The University of California may have to change the way it deals with unions if a bill currently in the state Senate ““ which would require the university to recognize card checks ““ is signed by the governor. Read more...

Sharon orders West Bank raids JERUSALEM “”mdash; Israeli forces raided four West Bank villages Tuesday, killing two Palestinian intelligence officers and arresting 15 suspected militants. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ruled out peace talks until attacks against Israel end. Read more...

JONATHAN YOUNG/Daily Bruin Congressman Henry Waxman (right) speaks with Jasmine Oberman, coordinator of Bruins for Israel, and her father Jeffrey T. Oberman, in Ackerman Union Monday. Read more...

By Robert Salonga DAILY BRUIN STAFF [email protected] The University of California’s bleak financial forecast may look worse when Gov. Gray Davis releases his revised 2002-03 state budget today, which must account for a $22 billion overestimate, according to university and state officials. Read more...

NICOLE MILLER/Daily Bruin Staff The Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA will offer a kosher food option when completed next year. By Jeannette Sanchez-Palacios DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected] Campus housing is supposed to be a home away from home, but for many students it has simply become a burden. Read more...

By Marcelle Richards DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF [email protected] Starting today, decorated shirts will hang at Schoenberg Quad to commemorate victims of gender and sexual violence, many of them students and members of UCLA. Read more...