Each staff member has a different reason for choosing to become part of the Daily Bruin, and, more importantly, why we have chosen to stay with it. Life isn’t exactly glamorous in Kerckhoff Hall 118.

While on vacation in Thailand, fourth-year psychology student Henry Schwimmer started out the night playing drinking games.

The locals urged him to go see a healer in Baghdad.

With Chancellor Gene Block having previously been a faculty member at the University of Virginia for more than 30 years, University of California Board of Regents Chairman Richard Blum said he expected things might be a little bit different for Block when he came to UCLA.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, took an expected win in the last of the big states on Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary as the push for the Democratic presidential nomination continued.

Ned Alpers has had the same office for 40 years: Bunche 5351.

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., garnered the support of the UCLA student vote on Super Tuesday, with a majority voting for the Democratic candidate in the California presidential primaries.

From the initiation of their campaigns, presidential candidates began courting politicians for endorsements, with one of the most sought-after political approvals given this past weekend by Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

UCLA faculty members contributed the most monetary donations toward 2008 presidential candidates out of all the University of California campuses, with a significant amount going toward the Democratic Party candidates.

Signifying the growing importance of California in the primary elections, three leading Democratic presidential candidates have made campaign stops in the state in the past week, while candidate-affiliated student groups have begun stepping up their support efforts.