I am a creature of habit.

Most students can relate to the stress of standing at the bottom of the Saxon Steps, rapidly looking both ways on Gayley Avenue and toward the goal of Landfair Avenue, waiting for oncoming traffic to cease. At all hours of the day and night, students make the crossing from the Saxon Steps to the apartments. This is not the only poorly designed element of our campus that presents a danger to students. With the rise in the issuance of jaywalking tickets to students, campus designers and university police should realign their priorities to reflect increased prevention, rather than the punishment, for unsafe transportation corridors in the Westwood area.

Challenge: a class of eighth graders at a New York middle school, 24 hours, no texting. Result: initally severe anxiety, and a serious realization of their dependence on this social medium.

Outside the realm of extensive university funding exists the Greek system.

Welcome to one of the most prestigious research universities in the world ““ a greeting most visitors encounter at some point when they reach the UCLA campus.

Driving in Los Angeles can hardly be called safe.

Groups of students have recently been spotted, pens in hand, perusing Westwood Village, eagerly searching for next year’s housing. Now is the time when students must either commit to another year of on-campus housing, plan on living in a sorority or fraternity house, or make that big move off the Hill to the apartments.

Deciding on a college, choosing a major and then finding a job; the magnitude of our decisions seems to grow with our age and perhaps that’s why, as students, we are supposedly becoming more and more responsible.

Anyone who escapes the Westwood bubble is all too familiar with the constant gridlock when entering the 405 Freeway from Wilshire Avenue and the smog that clouds the Bruins’ vision all the way to the Pacific.

Plans have been developing for the renovation of the famous Pauley Pavilion.