UCLA Transportation Services will unveil a new program this
quarter allowing students to rent cars on an hourly basis.
The program will begin by positioning three cars on campus, one
each in Lots 2, 6 and 7.

Alex Siegel will not be traveling home to Chicago this
Thanksgiving.
Instead, his parents are flying out to California to see him and
his brother, who attends USC, for the weekend, and they will stay
with family friends in San Diego.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon hosted its first Elimidance philanthropy
Tuesday night, which raised $2,500 for the fraternity’s
chosen national charity, the Children’s Miracle Network.
The event, which was located at El Dorado Cantina in Brentwood,
allowed representatives from 10 UCLA sororities to compete against
one another in dance competitions.

The California Public Interest Research Group is conducting a
survey to research the reasons behind increasing textbook prices at
universities.
The study, which will be published early next year, will contain
student, faculty and bookstore surveys regarding textbook sales and
prices and will offer price comparisons between textbooks at
different universities.

Los Angeles City Councilmember Jack Weiss kicked off the UCLA
School of Law’s government month with a keynote address at
the Law Building Wednesday.
Weiss, who was elected to city council June 2001 and represents
about 258,000 people, addressed a group primarily composed of
first-year law students about his experiences as a student of UCLA
and in a career in public service.

UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center is publishing a new
journal that will focus on a wide array of policy issues concerning
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.