Wednesday, April 1

Chancellor asked for input on allocations

By Scott B. Wong Daily Bruin Staff Chancellor Albert Carnesale has been asked to choose sides in a bitterly contested debate between members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council over the issue of student group funding. Read more...


Students make use of Web to find apartments and roommates

By My Yen La Daily Bruin Contributor Students shop online for various products these days: books, concert tickets and increasingly, apartments and roommates. The decline in apartment vacancies and relative ease of finding apartments online prompts many students to use Web databases to browse for potential roommates and housing. Read more...


UC Davis student arrested for kidnapping teen-ager

  The Associated Press Michael Polanger, 20, is escorted by an Orinda police officer after he was arrested Thursday. By Chris Goodmacher and Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Contributors Due to efforts by university police, authorities apprehended a kidnapping suspect in Northern California on Thursday. Read more...



Atkinson’s proposal could have national implications

Michael Weiner The story hit front pages all over the country. The president of the most prominent public university system in the United States has called for the elimination of the SAT I as a requirement in undergraduate admissions, thus undermining one of the fundamental assumptions that has governed American higher education for the past half century. Read more...


Sports Memorabilia

Illustration by JARRETT QUON/Daily Bruin Carolina Reyes Daily Bruin Contributor Back in the 1930s, some professors at UCLA did more than just lecture and research. Walter Mosauer, a professor in the zoology department, was the first chairman and coach of the UCLA ski team. Read more...


International specialists meet to discuss pandemic

  CATHERINE JUN Saidi Kapiga of Harvard University spoke at a conference at UCLA addressing aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the African continent. By Trucmai Nguyen Daily Bruin Contributor By this time tomorrow 6,000 people will have died from AIDS in Africa. Read more...