A student with a sarcastic sense of humor and a love of the little things in life, Brian Chao died Monday of complications resulting from pancreatitis. Read more...

In a unanimous decision, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission voted to continue consideration of a $100 million construction project proposed for a vacant Westwood lot. Read more...

They make sad faces and try to climb into the UCLA van with hope of going home with their mentors. The children from the Ujima Village Development hate to see their UCLA mentors leave after their weekly homework help time. Read more...

When fees go up and services go down at the University of California, as they often do during a budget crisis, many question the decisions of the university’s administrators. Read more...

BruinGo!, the program allowing anyone with a BruinCard to swipe it and ride the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus for a reduced fare, is here to stay, and so are the changes introduced in fall 2003. Read more...

What started as a paper turned into a book. Graduate student Marty Cohen had been writing a paper on primary elections when he and political science professor John Zaller saw potential for a bigger project. Read more...

Something’s rotten in Washington, D.C. The American political system is drowning in a pool of bull. The ways in which our country is dominated by wealthy special interests are numerous enough to fill a dozen books, and The Bruin doesn’t pay me enough to write that much (Actually, I don’t get paid at all.) So here’s just one example. Read more...