As a freshman, I took Geography 5: People and Earth’s Ecosystems with nearly 600 other students. There were more people than seats in our lecture hall, and during every class, the aisles were packed with students who had to sit on the floor. Read more...

Most students know what it feels like to crack open a textbook for the first time the day before a midterm – the sinking feeling in your stomach, the rising panic as you realize just how much you have to cram in your head before morning. Read more...

Israeli and Palestinian advocates on campus are not camera shy. Much of the conversation about the conflict at UCLA manifests in a very public manner. Each year, the Daily Bruin receives numerous submissions from active students, each followed by a flurry of online comments. Read more...

Photo: Jiayin Guo, a graduate student in mathematics and Dana Saifan, the president of Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA and a fourth-year psychology student speak behind the mock “apartheid wall” put up in Bruin Plaza which represents the controversial separation barrier that borders the West Bank.

It’s not often that a policy manages to be both heavy-handed and completely toothless, yet the tobacco ban instituted on campus in April deftly embodies that oxymoron. Read more...