by Jennifer Vargas Daily Bruin Contributor Graduate students are concerned a new housing project will be too pricey and may lack a sense of community with the removal of a commons area. Read more...

  Photo courtesy of Owen Paun Debater Owen Paun will share his skills during a tour of eastern Europe. By Wendy Su Daily Bruin Contributor Nine a.m.: a time before many students at UCLA even contemplate getting up. Read more...

By Debra Marisa Greene Daily Bruin Contributor The Associated Students of UCLA may bring a CD store and an online gaming center to Ackerman Union if the Finance Committee approves the lease proposal today. Read more...

Possible brain vaccine found An experimental vaccine for brain cancer has promising results in preliminary investigations at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center. The vaccine, studied first as a preventive strategy for brain tumors, completely prevented brain tumor formation in laboratory rats. Read more...

By Sophia Chakos-Leiby Daily Bruin Contributor Nearly half the positions on the Undergraduate Student Association Council are uncontested for the May 8 and 9 elections ““ but this is unlikely to impact student voting, according to Elections Board Chair Matt Kaczmarek. Read more...

  JONATHAN YOUNG Fourth-year philosophy student Robin and his friend Ziv Kaufman celebrate Israeli Independence Day on Meyerhoff Park Wednesday. By Christina Jenkins and Andrew Edwards Daily Bruin Contributors Celebrated as Independence Day by many Israelis and remembered as “The Catastrophe” by Palestinians, Wednesday passed peacefully on campus despite high tensions, as congregations supporting both groups demonstrated at Meyerhoff Park and on Bruin Walk. Read more...

  ANGIE LEVINE/Daily Bruin Westwood Village Memorial Park may add more than 2,000 above-ground crypts along the cemetery’s side. Local residents have sought city council support to prevent this from happening. Read more...