BRIDGET O’BRIEN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff CSU executive vice chancellor David Spence addresses State Sen. Richard Alarcon Wednesday. By Shelina Sayani Daily Bruin Contributor State Sen. Read more...

By Dexter Gauntlett Daily Bruin Reporter Six hundred sorority sisters gathered around a live band Wednesday night, in the first-ever all-Panhellenic Philanthropic event that raised almost $3,000 for families of victims of the Sept. Read more...

By Jessica Chung Daily Bruin Contributor Medical schools nationwide observed a 25.8 percent decrease in the number of applications they’ve received over the past five years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Read more...

UCLA Sports Info Senior tailback DeShaun Foster will miss UCLA’s game vs. Oregon. By Scott Bair and Hannah Gordon Daily Bruin Reporter UCLA senior tailback DeShaun Foster, a Heisman trophy candidate, was declared ineligible for competition by the university due to a possible “extra benefits” violation. Read more...

By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Staff Students who walk along the south side of Pauley Pavilion to get to class will find it fenced-off today, and on every game day for the rest of the mens’ basketball season. Read more...

  DANIEL WONG/ Daily Bruin Senior Staff Islamic studies graduate student Hisham Mahmoud discusses the religion. By Sophia Chakos-Leiby Daily Bruin Contributor Holding two English translations of the Quran, Linda Lattiter, a UCLA alumni and athletic counselor for the College of Letters & Sciences, looked up and asked, “Who should I return these to?” Much to her surprise, the copies of the Quran were now hers ““ a gift from UCLA’s Muslim Student Association. Read more...

  Reed Hutchinson Dr. Peter Schulam works with Zeus Robot, an example of the types of technology that will be combined to create a surgical teaching system. Read more...