By Robert Salonga DAILY BRUIN STAFF [email protected] The UC Board of Regents turns to the state for a substantial amount of university funding, and the Legislature is known to capitalize on this dependence to influence them. Read more...

By Karen Graulich Daily Bruin Contributor [email protected] The Associated Students of UCLA budget proposal could have dire effects on the funding of student organizations on campus. Read more...

  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...