Tuesday, May 12

Weekend familiarizes parents with UCLA campus, student life

Sherry Haley said she was proud to see her daughter involved in several campus activities when she visited the UCLA campus for Parents’ Weekend on Friday. Read more...

Photo: Mairead Ahlbach (middle), a first-year political science student, joins her parents for UCLA Parents’ Weekend, which took place from Friday to Sunday. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)


UCLA Student Affairs makes plan for new transfer or veteran center

UCLA Student Media plans to rent out a section of the Daily Bruin office to the Student Affairs department which hopes to use the space for either a transfer or veteran student center, as discussed in an Associated Students UCLA meeting Friday. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Student Media will rent out part of its office to the Student Affairs department so it can be used as either a transfer or veteran student space. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)





Alums create CampusNod online test bank for UCLA students

Earlier this month, four UCLA alumni launched CampusNod, a test bank website that allows students to upload and purchase old UCLA tests for $1 each. The CampusNod test bank offers about 10,000 exams in 77 subject areas, said Joel Yancey, a UCLA alumnus and co-founder of CampusNod. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumni launched CampusNod, a test bank website that allows students to purchase old tests for $1 and download one free exam for every five they upload. (Nick Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Vote for Our Future aims to increase Bruin voter turnout

After struggling with low student voter turnout in his work on various political campaigns, Joe Jacobson decided he wanted to turn the numbers around. Jacobson, a third-year political science and economics student, and Steve Charmello, a second-year business economics student, created a student organization in June that aims to get all eligible UCLA students registered over the next four years. Read more...

Photo: Vote for Our Future became an official student club last week. (Helen Kwak/Daily Bruin)