Chantal Armstrong By Sabrina Singhapattanapong DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected] UCLA senior Chantal Armstrong, 22, died in a car accident Sunday morning in Mexico City. Armstrong, an anthropology student, was a passenger in a car with two friends she’d met in Mexico while studying abroad, when the car lost control and crashed into a telephone pole. Read more...

JONATHAN YOUNG/Daily Bruin Peter Lopez, a fifth-year sociology student, speaks out for LGBT causes this week. By Debra Marisa Greene DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected] In the first ever “Queers of Color Week,” about 40 students and faculty members gathered at Meyerhoff Park Tuesday to hear students from various ethnicities speak about being part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Read more...

JEFF ANTENORE/Daily Bruin Woodrow Clarke, aid to Gov. Gray Davis, speaks to students Tuesday about the energy crisis, Enron and economic health. By Kelly Rayburn DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF [email protected] Months before blackouts threatened California, T.H. Read more...

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JONATHAN YOUNG/Daily Bruin ASUCLA executive director Patricia Eastman (center) suggests raising student fees to compensate for inflation, a step not taken since the 1980s. By Anna Paningbatan and Marcelle Richards Daily Bruin Senior Staff [email protected] [email protected] The Undergraduate Students Association Council voted down a budget proposed by the Associated Students of UCLA for the 2002-03 fiscal year because it would dramatically cut funding that the council has discretion over. Read more...

By Robert Salonga DAILY BRUIN STAFF [email protected] Second-year UC Berkeley student Matthew Murray was nominated as the 2003-04 student representative to the UC Board of Regents, the UC announced Tuesday. Read more...

OSCAR ALVAREZ/Daily Bruin The UCLA Medical Center will not be affected as much as other hospitals by the state budget proposed $116 million cut in Medi-Cal funds. Read more...