USAC petitions against costs
As part of the “No More Increase in Student Fees”
campaign, the Undergraduate Students Association Council has
started petitioning to end increases in parking fees and for the
University to fund the costs of BruinGo! “”mdash; a free Santa
Monica bus program that will cost 75 cents to ride in July.
Circulated on Bruin Walk, near campus bus stops and through mass
e-mails, USAC has gathered over 1500 signatures in the past two
weeks, said Transportation Commissioner Theo Apostel.
They plan to present this information at a meeting with the
Chancellor planned for the beginning of spring quarter, he
added.
USAC hopes to obtain at least 5000 signatures.
Graduation dates rescheduled
The College of Letters and Science is moving its commencement
ceremony from Saturday to Friday afternoon to better accommodate
departmental ceremonies on the weekend.
The change was made because of “overwhelming”
student interest in the departmental ceremonies over the past two
years, according to assistant provost John Sandbrook.
“We want to try and insure a number of opportunities, but
we want to make sure all are very happy experiences,”
Sandbrook said.
Since 1990, the Letters & Science ceremony was divided into
separate ceremonies for social, physical and life sciences and the
humanities.
With the growing number of separate departmental ceremonies, the
four divisional ceremonies will be merged into one.
The L&S ceremony will take place from 5-6:30 p.m. in Pauley
Pavilion on March 22.
Graduating students will be notified of the change through
letters and messages through my.ucla.edu.
“˜Lefty’ brains shaped by genes
UCLA researchers have determined that genetics plays a
significant role in shaping brain structure and influences the
brains of left-handed and right-handed people differently. Reported
in March’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
the findings may offer insights into autism, dyslexia and
stuttering, language disorders more prevalent in left-handers.
Researchers used MRI scans to compare the brain size and
structure of 72 sets of identical twins to 67 pairs of fraternal
twins.
Regardless of whether the twins were left-handed or
right-handed, the team noticed a significantly greater
environmental influence on certain regions of the left side of the
brain.
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff and wire reports.