By Rachel Makabi Daily Bruin Reporter University officials presented a bleak outlook for the UCLA budget in a meeting with the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. Steve Olsen, vice chancellor of finance and budget, said that while he cannot determine how UCLA will ultimately be affected by the downturn in the economy, the facts present cause for great concern. Read more...

By Emily Taylor-Mortorff Daily Bruin Contributor Mistakes and lessons learned from the Vietnam War can shed light on the current situation in Afghanistan, Jack Valenti, the former chief of staff to President Lyndon B. Read more...

By Dexter Gauntlett Daily Bruin Reporter Latin American scholars and economists held a round table discussion with UCLA professors Tuesday to converse about Argentina and Mexico’s political economies. Read more...

  Courtesy of Warren Robak Walter Karplus By Marjorie Hernandez Daily Bruin Reporter Cool, calm and collected ““ these were words used to describe Walter Karplus, interim dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Read more...

Alumna takes on city post Joy Chen has a big job ahead of her: Reverse the economic downturn in Los Angeles. Nov. 2 was Chen’s first day on the job as the city’s director of economic recovery. Read more...

  Photos by DANIEL WONG/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Nargis Faizy, a fifth-year history student, discusses war in her life. By Rachel Makabi Daily Bruin Reporter Anila Daulatzai stared at the green-blinking lights on her television screen the first day of U.S.-led airstrikes on Afghanistan, wondering if the cities and camps she had visited just a few weeks before would be attacked. Read more...

Med Center offers free lectures for anniversary In celebration of the UCLA School of Medicine’s 50th anniversary, leading doctors and surgeons are offering a series of free public lectures, which kicked off Saturday with “Re-engineering of Surgical Technology in the 21st Century.” Speakers at the lecture focused on the benefits of minimally invasive procedures in neuro, cardiac and breast cancer surgeries and the need to expand its use. Read more...