Despite its adverse effects, smoking’s social appeal continues to draw many UCLA studentsBy Siu Ng When the Marlboro Man appeared on billboards with cigarette in hand, everyone thought it was cool. Read more...

Student Union planning for difficult year By Kim Nguyen Memories of plunging revenues, multi-million dollar losses and controversial dismissals still lingered in the air Friday as the Associated Students Board of Directors met to face the daunting task of restructuring the governing body that touches most aspects of student life. Read more...

By Kim Nguyen Most UC students and faculty scatter during the summer, but more than 50 of them gathered under the punishing August sun Thursday to protest the University of California Regents’ decision to end affirmative action in admissions and hiring. Read more...

Hospital scrutinized for alleged negligence By Gil Hopenstandand Donna WongSummer Bruin Staff The first day of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital’s (NPH) accreditation survey began with stories alleging negligence and impropriety. Read more...

By Patrick KerkstraSummer Bruin Staff SAN FRANCISCO – They chanted. They marched. They cried and were arrested. But in the end, the sudden flare of student and community activism was not enough to reverse the decision of the governor-appointed UC Regents, who chose to end the university’s 30-year-old affirmative action policies. Read more...

Regents end UC affirmative action policies By Phillip CarterSummer Bruin Staff SAN FRANCISCO – After a 12-hour meeting in which they were bullied by politicians, besieged by protesters, and evacuated by a bomb threat and a civil disturbance, the University of California Regents voted to stop admitting students, hiring professors, and awarding contracts on the basis of race and sex. Read more...

By Gil Hopenstandand Patrick KerkstraSummer Bruin Staff Emilia Galan’s mother-in-law owes a great deal to County-USC hospital. The uninsured North Hollywood resident underwent surgery there Wednesday ­ a procedure which she could not have afforded at another hospital. Read more...