It’s weird to be done with the Daily Bruin. It has pretty much consumed my life since June 2005.

Just a glance at ballots from recent presidential elections
makes it clear that blacks, Latinos and women have been vying for
votes alongside names such as George W.

When she saw the signs for an “affirmative action bake
sale,” third-year theater student Constance Reese just had to
let her non-Bruin friends know.
Standing on Bruin Walk on Wednesday afternoon, she pointed her
cell phone’s tiny camera lens at signs held by Bruin
Republicans, one listing varying prices for cookies and cupcakes
““ 30 cents for Hispanics, $1 for white males, and, for gays,
lesbians and Native Americans, the message said, “We pay
you!”
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event.

Affordability, accessibility and accountability: These are the
three main goals in a new plan to improve the status of
postsecondary education, announced Tuesday by Education Secretary
Margaret Spellings.

Ah, the Fourth of July. Our day of independence. The best time
of the year to celebrate America while at the same time rocketing
illegal fireworks into the night sky.

As I walked into my new dorm room and greeted my new roommates
in the fall of 2004, I was nervous.
Really nervous.
My roommates’ parents were long gone as my family (for
which the term “punctuality” holds no meaning) arrived
to move in early in the evening.

A new farmers’ market is on its way to Brentwood while
plans are in the works to bring a market back to Westwood Village,
two months after the departure of the Westwood Village
Farmers’ Market.

Los Angeles County officials filed a lawsuit against the U.S.
Army on Wednesday to stop the proposed land swap of a 10-acre
parcel of property located adjacent to Westwood.

A few hundred students ““ from the Afrikan Student Union,
other underrepresented communities and their supporters ““
marched to Chancellor Albert Carnesale’s office Wednesday in
a rally to encourage reform of UCLA admissions policies and to
address concerns regarding a lack of diversity at UCLA.

With the humming of air vents above, Monday afternoon was a slow
day at the X-Cape arcade, as the white noise and flashing screens
combined into a seizure waiting to happen.