Wednesday, July 1


News Briefs

Screening of film aims to stop hate The Interfraternity Council is sponsoring the showing of “Journey to a Hate Free Millennium,” with speaker and filmmaker Brent Scarpo. Read more...


Tours give Bruins-to-be the lowdown on UCLA

By Sophia Chakos-Leiby Daily Bruin Contributor Kathleen Sweeney, a third-year business economics student, pauses in front of Kerckhoff Coffeehouse.  “Look,” she announces to a quiet group of Orange Glen High School students from Escondido, Calif., “this campus coffeehouse is one of my favorite places to study “”mdash; it provides a great social buzz.” Sweeney is not just an overeager student volunteering her time to show prospective students around campus “”mdash; she works as a campus tour guide for UCLA’s Office of Admissions and Relations with Schools, and leads an average of two groups a week. Read more...


Construction on graduate housing may suffer delay

By Jamie Hsiung Daily Bruin Reporter Graduate student commuters may not see relief anytime soon if housing construction is delayed as anticipated by housing officials. Phase Two of the construction of a new housing facility on Veteran and Weyburn Ave., to house 2,000 graduate students on the site of medical facility Warren Hall, is supposed to begin by Fall 2005. Read more...


Turnout of youth voters consistently low

  Daily Bruin File Photo Students visit Covel polling booths during 2000 presidential elections. By Crystal Betz and Kelly Rayburn Daily Bruin Senior Staff With midterms barely over and finals fast-approaching, many UCLA students will not find the time to vote in today’s California primary election. Read more...



Layoffs cause commotion at School of Public Health

By Christina Jenkins Daily Bruin Contributor The layoffs of six staff members in the School of Public Health have sparked an outcry from the Faculty Executive Committee and prompted the former employees to file grievances that their layoffs were unfounded. Read more...