As hospitals across California struggle to maintain efficiency during a severe nursing shortage, UCLA Medical Center looks on with an ominous sense of foreboding. The medical center currently has enough nurses to provide adequate patient treatment, but UCLA administrators are bracing for significant reductions in its nursing supply in the near future. Read more...

It’s 1 a.m. on a nondescript Thursday, and the line for Puzzles Eatery is out the door. As a BruinCard swipes with an affirmative beep and order numbers are yelled out one after another, students chatter excitedly in anticipation of the burgers, burritos and french fries soon to be filling their stomachs. Read more...

The Jewish Student Union base budget appeal has once again put the process of student group funding under scrutiny. Although JSU certainly provides valuable programming to the student body and merits Undergraduate Students Association Council funding, the Judicial Board should not alter JSU’s funding status. Read more...

The Bruin Republicans never should have launched an attack against MEChA. The content and style of their campaign are both insulting and nonproductive. The BR leadership took its complaints to Bruin Walk and the undergraduate student government after only minimal attempts to communicate with MEChA. Read more...

Bruin Republicans need to update stances Forget the National Guard. With the Bruin Republicans looking out for our territorial integrity in case of some ex-post-facto Aztec insurgency, we don’t need to worry at night. Read more...

The anti-war movement might have gotten a boost last week when David Kay, the former weapons expert in Iraq, said there were no weapons of mass destruction in the country. Read more...

Two positions for the undergraduate student government have recently opened up to the entire student body. With the resignation last week of Nelson Saldaña as a the general representatives for the Undergraduate Students Association Council, the position is now up for grabs for qualified students. Read more...