Friday, May 15

Bruin digest

Some teams may consider two losses midway into the Pac-10 season a disappointment For the UCLA swim and dive team, however, fourth place in the Pac-10 doesn’t mean much, especially only two events into the season. Read more...


Workers, students rally for wages

As contract negotiations between the University of California and the Coalition of University Employees were halted for a lunch break on Thursday, students and workers used the opportunity to come together. Read more...


News briefs

Commuters banned from front passenger cars Metrolink commuters won’t be allowed in front passenger cars until a federal investigation is completed into the deadly Glendale derailment that killed 11 passengers. Read more...


Los Angeles developed on shaky ground

The mudslides caused by recent torrential rains in Southern California can be attributed in part to historic errors made back when cattle outnumbered unstable hillsides. “Los Angeles developed as a small cow town in the lowlands, and Sunset Boulevard was nothing more than cow trails to the coast,” said Antony Orme, a professor of geography at UCLA. Read more...



UCLA needs to pay up

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt told the Congress of Industrial Organizations Convention in 1943, “I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.” These stirring words have as much relevance today as they did at the height of World War II ““ and nowhere more than at our own doorstep. Read more...


Tsunami disaster update

“¢bull; President Bush asked his father and Bill Clinton, former political adversaries, to lead the American effort to raise private funds for tsunami relief. The former presidents said they planned to deliver a report to President Bush on March 8. Read more...