By Shauna Mecartea Daily Bruin Reporter Though it may not bring back affirmative action, an item to repeal SP-1 and 2 is slated on the agenda for the upcoming UC Board of Regents meeting It’s been five years since the regents banned the consideration of race, gender and ethnicity in UC admissions ““ a move many considered an affront to underrepresented minority students applying to the university. Read more...

By Michelle Kroes Daily Bruin Contributor Some students are unwilling to sit idly as the demand for the establishment of a South Asian studies program grows at UCLA. Read more...

By Marion Wise Daily Bruin Contributor Ramzi Ajami and Kennisha Austin, candidates for internal vice president of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, hope to address similar issues, but their plans for execution differ based on their slates’ goals. Read more...

By Shauna Mecartea Daily Bruin Reporter An item to repeal SP-1 and 2 is slated on the agenda for the upcoming UC Board of Regents meeting, though regents say the measures may be replaced by another statute compliant with Proposition 209. Read more...

  CATHERINE JUN Environmental Coalition members Kevin Rudiger and Christine Riordan participate in a "die-in" in Westwood Plaza Thursday. By Scott B. Wong Daily Bruin Staff Five students from the Environmental Coalition staged a “die-in” at noon Thursday, chalking outlines of bodies in the center of Westwood Plaza and laying themselves face-down on the hot pavement in the name of Burma. Read more...

  By Marion Wise Daily Bruin Contributor Two quarters of lobbying for better financial aid and the repeal of policies banning affirmative action is not enough for Evan Okamura ““ that’s why he’s hoping to be external vice president of the Undergraduate Students Association Council again. Read more...