NICOLE MILLER/Daily Bruin UCLA alumnus Geoff Silverman believes "you have to have a thick skin" and not let a challenge deter pursuits. By Rachel Makabi Daily Bruin Senior Staff When UCLA alumnus Geoff Silverman interviewed with entertainment executives, he warned his potential bosses his passion for the industry was so strong that if they wouldn’t accept him, someone else would. Read more...

By Marcelle Richards Daily Bruin Senior Staff The last time history graduate students checked, they belonged to a department, not a business. But the tides have changed in light of a changing management, some say. Read more...

By Noah Grand Daily Bruin Reporter An Academic Senate proposal to develop an admissions test based on California high school curriculum that is fair to all demographic groups is not possible, state and test service officials said. Read more...

  The Associated Press Culver City Democrat Herb Wesson (right) is sworn in as speaker of the state assembly. By Kelly Rayburn Daily Bruin Senior Staff Challenging colleagues by saying, “All I want is all you’ve got,” Assemblyman Herb Wesson, who will likely represent UCLA in the state legislature next year, was sworn in as speaker of the assembly Wednesday morning. Read more...

By Hilaire Fong Daily Bruin Contributor Transportation Services plans on replacing two missing signal lights on a busy campus intersection in the next two weeks. For at least six weeks, pedestrians have found it difficult to know when it’s safe to cross the intersection at Charles Young Drive South and Westwood Boulevard because two pedestrian signals are missing. Read more...

Dukakis to speak at UC Berkeley Michael Dukakis is heading north. Dukakis, the former presidential candidate and current part-time UCLA professor, who is acting chair of Amtrak’s board of directors, will visit the University of California, Berkeley, on Friday to talk about “High-Speed Rail: The Critical Link.” The guest of UC Berkeley’s Institute of Urban & Regional Development and University of California Transportation Center, Dukakis will hold a seminar about a first-class, high-speed rail network that he says is the answer to the United States’ transportation crisis. Read more...

  MICHAEL TOBEY The UA on Wellworth is one of three movie theaters to close in Westwood within two months. By Dexter Gauntlett Daily Bruin Staff The curtain is closing on three Westwood theaters in the next 60 days as Sav-On and Whole Foods make their debut, resulting in the loss of nearly half the Village’s movie screens. Read more...