The old joke is that as soon as you leave for college, your parents will turn your room into a home office, home gym or even a home office and gym.

UCLA’s emergency message system, BruinAlert, provides the campus community with notifications whenever anything poses a continuing danger to students, faculty or visitors.
However, students have said they wonder why some alerts were not issued during emergencies last year and how BruinAlerts come about.

The Westwood Village Improvement Association, also known as the BID, is a nonprofit organization tasked with improving the state of Westwood Village. The BID was created by property and business owners in August 2011 to provide Westwood Village with services the City of Los Angeles could not provide.

Jason Ergina, a candidate running for this year’s general representative office in the Undergraduate Students Association Council election, talked with John Peter Cavender, a Daily Bruin contributor, on Monday about his campaign platforms and why he decided to run for USAC.

The University of California will extend a program supporting UC student research and service on food issues for the next two years, the University announced Monday.

Four candidates for a new UCLA diversity vice chancellor position will visit campus in the next month for interviews with university leaders and open forums that all students, faculty and staff can attend.

The UCLA Store had a stake in this year’s rivalry football game against USC: The win brought in more profit.
Prior to the rivalry game, special victory merchandise was designed for production in the event of a UCLA win.

In response to the record drought, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called for the city to reduce its fresh water use by 20 percent over the next three years.

The Associated Students UCLA Board of Directors approved next year’s budget for UCLA Student Media Friday.
The new budget makes it clear that Student Media should seek outside funding or develop new revenue streams to continue operating in the long term.

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The Associate Students UCLA board of directors unanimously passed its first philanthropy policy, which details how the board will respond to donation requests, at its last meeting,
The policy specifies that ASUCLA will only contribute to philanthropy groups in two ways: non-monetary donations and promotional support.