PRIYA SHARMA/Daily Bruin Ryan Callis (foreground) and Tim McMullen participate in a graffiti art battle prior to the opening of the Veritas Forum’s art exhibit. Read more...

  PRIYA SHARMA/Daily Bruin Many students have already begun hunting for places to live next year ““ whether it is in or outside of Westwood Village. Read more...

  CATHERINE JUN First-year student Jimi Naftalin protests the death penalty in front of Kerckhoff Hall Wednesday afternoon. Dexter Gauntlett Daily Bruin Contributor Makeshift tombstones lined the Meyerhoff Park lawn Wednesday, drawing attention to the fate of 24 people who were put to death by lethal injection this year. Read more...

By Kiyoshi Tomono Daily Bruin Contributor As a student athlete on the UCLA swim team for the past three years, Lyndee Hovsepian has become as accustomed to the random drug test as much as she has to midterms. Read more...

By Dharshani Dharmawardena and Hemesh Patel Daily Bruin Senior Staff In the winter of 1983, a chance encounter with a tree changed Scott Imler’s life forever. Read more...

  PRIYA SHARMA/Daily Bruin Journalist Lenny Kohn speaks about the need to preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. By Michelle Kroes Daily Bruin Contributor With national debate over the preservation of Alaska’s wilderness showing no signs of abating, UCLA students gathered together on Monday to hear a journalist speak about keeping the land free from oil and gas drilling. Read more...

Israeli activist speaks out for Mideast peace Israeli peace activist and iconoclast Yitzhak Frankenthal brought his message of coexistence and reconciliation to UCLA Tuesday with a presentation stressing the necessity for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read more...