Photo Illustration by JASON CHEN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff By Joy McMasters Daily Bruin Staff Ignorance is bliss, but not if it perpetuates hate and discrimination. Read more...

  BRIDGET O’BRIEN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Most of the De Neve Plaza housing complex, located in front of Dykstra Hall, will open this quarter after three years of construction. Read more...

Christine Byrd   Byrd is editor in chief 2000-01. If you want to hear about how absolutely amazing the Daily Bruin staff is this year, e-mail her at [email protected]. Read more...

  Daily Bruin File Photo Apartment prices in Westwood have increased in recent years in response to the high demand for housing near campus. By Jessica Kwek Daily Bruin Contributor UCLA students comb the streets of Westwood each year searching for affordable housing, but what many of them find in the end are overpriced apartments. Read more...

  MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Whether belonging to students or visitors, expensive cars abound at UCLA. By Marjorie Hernandez Daily Bruin Contributor Financial aid given to underrepresented minority students has declined since the end of affirmative action, while middle and upper-middle class families continue to receive ever more financial aid. Read more...

  AMY HABER/Daily Bruin Senior Staff By Nicole Tabo Daily Bruin Contributor Living with two strangers in Sproul Hall was the first time Van Chau, a second-year undeclared student, had ever slept in a place without her parents. Read more...

  AMY HABER/Daily Bruin By Karen Matsuoka For the Daily Bruin For the first time in recent California history, the 2000 census revealed that white people are no longer the majority in the state. Read more...