Alumna takes on city post Joy Chen has a big job ahead of her: Reverse the economic downturn in Los Angeles. Nov. 2 was Chen’s first day on the job as the city’s director of economic recovery. Read more...

  EDWARD LIN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff UCLA Extension celebrated on Thursday, the opening of a new central facility. The facility is located at 1010 Westwood Blvd. Read more...

By Arj Arjunan Daily Bruin Contributor The Undergraduate Students Association Council, which has criticized the UC Regents housing task force for responding slowly and ignoring important issues, is concerned with plans for housing developments in areas away from UCLA. Read more...

  KEITH ENRIQUEZ/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Demonstrators march outside the Federal Building Sunday to support the United States and to protest the current Iranian government. By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Staff More than 750 peaceful protesters diverted traffic for a full hour Sunday when they marched through Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards to call for government upheaval in Iran. Read more...

  MIKE CHIEN Professor John Agnew addresses program coordinator Chris Rivas and the audience at a teach-in Thursday at the Northwest Campus Auditorium. By Audrey Crummey Daily Bruin Contributor A small group of students heard from a panel of terrorism experts ““ including professors from various departments, an FBI agent and an editor of a terrorism journal, ““ at an on-campus forum Thursday. Read more...

  The Associated Press A large section of the tailpiece of American Airlines Flight 587 is lifted off a boat by a crane after the Airbus A300 crashed in the Rockaway Beach section of the Queens borough of New York Monday. Read more...

  Photos by DANIEL WONG/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Nargis Faizy, a fifth-year history student, discusses war in her life. By Rachel Makabi Daily Bruin Reporter Anila Daulatzai stared at the green-blinking lights on her television screen the first day of U.S.-led airstrikes on Afghanistan, wondering if the cities and camps she had visited just a few weeks before would be attacked. Read more...