By Robert Salonga DAILY BRUIN STAFF [email protected] The University of California’s bleak financial forecast may look worse when Gov. Gray Davis releases his revised 2002-03 state budget today, which must account for a $22 billion overestimate, according to university and state officials. Read more...

NICOLE MILLER/Daily Bruin Staff The Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA will offer a kosher food option when completed next year. By Jeannette Sanchez-Palacios DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected] Campus housing is supposed to be a home away from home, but for many students it has simply become a burden. Read more...

By Marcelle Richards DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF [email protected] Starting today, decorated shirts will hang at Schoenberg Quad to commemorate victims of gender and sexual violence, many of them students and members of UCLA. Read more...

By Kelly Rayburn DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF [email protected] Riad Abdelkarim’s four children blew up balloons to welcome their father back to the United States from Israel, where he was on a fact-finding mission with a group of doctors. Read more...

NICOLE MILLER/Daily Bruin Staff David Dahle, a fourth-year sociology and political science student, will be USAC’s president next year. By Marcelle Richards DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF [email protected] For the first time since spring break, David Dahle had the chance to shoot some hoops over the weekend. Read more...

By Rosette Gonzales DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected] After UCLA and several other universities cancelled their education abroad programs to Israel, some students are exploring the option of “virtual study abroad” as a way to gain insight to what it might be like to live and study in Israel today. Read more...