By Rachel Makabi Daily Bruin Senior Staff Students weren’t the only ones caught off guard last month by housing officials’ consolidation policy, which required students living in rooms with vacancies to upgrade their contract, move to a new room or accept a new roommate. Read more...

By Marcelle Richards Daily Bruin Senior Staff Graduate students may be losing the numbers game to an ever-growing crowd of younger Bruins. With three undergraduates to every graduate, the campus and its services are shifting to accommodate the majority, said associate vice chancellor of the graduate division, Jim Turner. Read more...

By Marcelle Richards Daily Bruin Senior Staff The polls are open and just a click away. Today kicks off the Graduate Students Association election among three unopposed candidates. Read more...

By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Staff Backers of a state ballot initiative to ban the University of California and other state agencies from maintaining racial data are trying to move it from November’s election to March 2004 to improve its chance of passing. Read more...

By Teri H.P. Nguyen Daily Bruin Contributor Cuauhtemoc Ortega, a third-year political science and English student, has been selected to be the next editor in chief of the Daily Bruin. Read more...

By Marcelle Richards Daily Bruin Senior Staff Getting graduate students together is like playing 52-card pickup in the dark. The task can be near impossible: graduate students are often isolated in their respective departments, most use e-mail as their preferred mode of communication, and the majority commute. Read more...