By Timothy Kudo Daily Bruin Senior Staff Across the nation, 76.1 percent of this year’s freshman class is white, 73.4 percent want to be very well off financially, and 12.1 percent are worried they won’t have enough money to graduate from college, according to a report released by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. Read more...

  PATIL ARMENIAN/ Daily Bruin Senior Staff Jennifer Jacobs signs a card to support CALPIRG next to Merriah Fairchild, a CALPIRG intern coordinator. CALPIRG is opposed to BP’s desire to drill for oil in northern Alaska. Read more...

By Karen Albrecht Daily Bruin Contributor In France, “genocide” now officially describes the death of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks, after landmark French legislation passed Jan. Read more...

  Photos courtesy of University Archives Since 1931, Kerckhoff Hall has been a center for student activity and has housed many student organizations. It used to include a men’s activity room, now the Kerckhoff Grand Salon (above and lower left), while the meeting room for the Undergraduate Students Association Council (lower right) has remained relatively the same. Read more...

  Michael Weiner Weiner is a fourth-year history and political science student. His column analyzing issues of interest to the UCLA community runs on Mondays. Send feedback to [email protected]. Read more...

  MARY CIECEK/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Patrons of L.A. Fitness Center in Westwood workout and watch George W. Bush be inaugurated as the nation’s 43rd president. Read more...

EDWARD LIN/Daily Bruin Carlos Mena, a first-year film & television student, protests George W. Bush’s presidential inauguration. By Kelly Rayburn and Scott B. Wong Daily Bruin Staff She said she is scared, not only because her son sits on California’s death row waiting to be executed, but because George W. Read more...