Wednesday, April 29

Tax advice eases student worries

  ELI GILL First-year business economics student Kehsa Batista (right) and third-year aerospace engineering student Max Roberts take notes at an H&R Block-sponsored student tax seminar Thursday. Read more...


College Briefs

Grad students push to unionize Graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania are taking their fight to unionize to the courthouse. New York University and Brown University are campuses that only recently acquired the ability to hold union elections, which helped set a hopeful precedent for the Pennsylvanian students not far away. Read more...


USAC member calls for crosswalk

  NICOLE MILLER/Daily Bruin A student checks for cars as he crosses Gayley Avenue on Wednesday. One member of USAC has proposed that the city add a new crosswalk due to heavy pedestrian traffic on that street. Read more...


College Briefs

Article reveals skewed research Objective scientific research is increasingly under attack by vested interests attempting to control the outcome or impact of research, report UCLA researchers in the January issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Read more...


Budget makes education a priority

  The Associated Press Gov. Gray Davis (right) waves before delivering his State of the State address at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday. By Dexter Gauntlett Daily Bruin Staff In the annual State of the State address Tuesday night, Gov. Read more...



Underground explosion closes avenue

By Dexter Gauntlett Daily Bruin Staff A short circuit caused an underground electrical transformer to explode behind Copeland’s Sports on Westwood Avenue last week, leading to power outages throughout the village and prompting the fire department to shut down several blocks of Westwood Avenue. Read more...