By Kelly Rayburn Daily Bruin Contributor Freshman assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood), whose district includes UCLA, suggests it is better to shut down state offices than to leave private businesses or residences in the dark during California’s power crisis. Read more...

  MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Former Vice President Al Gore, Chancellor Albert Carnesale and more than 20 faculty members met Wednesday at a faculty symposium on family-centered community development issues. Read more...

  CHRIS BACKLEY/Daily Bruin Mark Speare (foreground), of UCLA Health Care, hears hospital service workers voice their complaints Wednesday afternoon. By Benjamin Parke Daily Bruin Reporter A few dozen medical service staff crowded into an elevator lobby ““ some with turquoise work smocks sticking out from underneath their green union shirts. Read more...

  EDWARD LIN/Daily Bruin The number of underrepresented applicants to UCLA increased this year. By Hemesh Patel Daily Bruin Staff This past year, UCLA witnessed a record number of underrepresented minority freshman applicants, which increased from 6,509 last year to 7,402. Read more...

By Benjamin Parke Daily Bruin Reporter An admissions plan UC President Richard Atkinson proposed last year is encountering a few shoals it will have to navigate ““ particularly at UCLA ““ before its implementation. Read more...

  Photo Illustration by CLAIRE ZUGMEYER and MICHAEL FALCONE/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Humanitarian and former United Nations undersecretary Ralph J. Bunche, UCLA alumnus (’27) will be featured in a documentary airing Friday on PBS. Read more...