PRIYA SHARMA First-year graduate student and physics Teaching Assistant David Brown is shown doing lab work. Besides teaching and working at Adventure 16, Brown is an experienced outdoorsman who climbs mountains in his free time. Read more...

By Karen Albrecht Daily Bruin Contributor The disastrous state of mental health care in the United States has impacted UCLA psychiatric facilities, according to a university mental health authority. Read more...

By Ruby Jain Daily Bruin Contributor A forum sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center last week discussed how many Asian Americans feel they have been framed as a group to be feared by the media. Read more...

CALPIRG lobbies for emissions reduction Representatives from the California Public Interest Research Group are lobbying Gov. Gray Davis to support a Zero Emission Vehicle Program which requires 10 percent of new cars sold by 2003 to be either zero or low emission. Read more...

EVP ELECTION RESULTS Third-year political science and Asian American Studies student Evan Okamura won the election for External Vice President of the Undergraduate Students Association Council by a landslide. Read more...

  CHRIS BACKLEY Jazz History Professor Gerald Wilson plays the piano between classes in Dickson. Wilson has been in the jazz scene for 50 years. By Lisa Klassen Daily Bruin Contributor Behind the eyes of Gerald Wilson, a jazz history professor in the Ethnomusicology Department, are more than 50 years of performing with legendary jazz musicians and his own orchestra, five Grammy nominations, and several years of teaching. Read more...

By My Yen La Daily Bruin Contributor Many humanities and social science professors not working toward tenure earn about the same salary as baggage porters, according to a Coalition on the Academic Workforce report. Read more...