I’m pretty sure working at the Daily Bruin was simultaneously the best and worst job I’ll ever have.

Local law enforcement responded to what appeared to be a couch
fire in the middle of the street on the 600 block of Landfair
Avenue early Sunday morning.

Part of Mira Hershey Hall, UCLA’s first on-campus
residence hall, is currently undergoing demolition to make way for
the construction of the Life Sciences Replacement Building.

Rumor has it that the journalism industry is going straight down
the toilet.
If that were true, it wouldn’t bode very well for my
future, given that I have spent my college career at UCLA working
50- and 60-hour weeks at the Daily Bruin instead of cultivating the
perfect grade point average and sucking up to professors to get a
glowing letter of recommendation.

With its announced intent to move toward a more
“holistic” model of undergraduate admissions, UCLA will
adopt a process modeled after UC Berkeley’s, which has
admitted a greater percentage of underrepresented minorities in
recent years.

Six candidates in the Undergraduate Students Association Council
election were disqualified Monday after they failed to turn in
their mandatory campaign expense reports.
Jason Mizzell, Elections Board investigations chairman, said the
disqualified candidates were internal vice president candidate
Sheretta Thomas; general representative candidates Steve Sandoval
and Elias Dabaie; Academic Affairs commissioner candidate Jennifer
McGee; Campus Events commissioner candidate Eric Alvarez; and
Community Service commissioner candidate Matthew de Lira.

Graduate students campaigning for a referendum on their ballot
are frantically increasing their efforts to get out the vote after
learning that a UC policy announced just a week ago requires double
the voter turnout they thought they needed for its passage.

UCLA students’ high cost of living is not only reflected
in the price of rent, but in many of their local purchases ““
from gas to groceries to morning lattes.

Wood splintered, screws flew and columns sheared off from their
bases when a series of earthquakes shook the UCLA campus last
week.
Scale models of college dormitories were put to the seismic test
in an earthquake simulator when seven teams from California
universities competed in the seismic-design challenge Friday during
the 2006 Pacific Southwest Regional Conference of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, hosted by the UCLA Henry Samueli School
of Engineering and Applied Science.

While the UCLA community is gearing up for the NCAA Championship
tonight, police are preparing to be out in force in hopes of
quelling the types of illegal behavior that erupted into riots
after the UCLA men’s basketball team won its last title in
1995.