EDWARD LIN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Third-year Spanish student Tony Joe Neal boards the Big Blue Bus to head back to campus. By Jenny Blake Daily Bruin Contributor UCLA commuters are concerned that if the Big Blue Bus transit program raises fares by 50 percent, as has been recommended, it will empty their pockets and possibly the pockets of the BruinGo! Read more...

By Sophia Chakos-Leiby Daily Bruin Contributor The Undergraduate Students Association Council general student body meeting ““ organized to inform students and gain input about rising housing and parking rates ““ turned into an informal discussion when only 20 people, including USAC and On Campus Housing Commission members, showed up at Covel Commons on Wednesday. Read more...

  NIMA TAHAI The UCLA Mock trial team celebrates their first place victory in the Western Regional Tournament in Rancho Cucamonga, Feb. 1-3. By Jany Kim Daily Bruin Contributor Eight aspiring lawyers sit around a kitchen table planning their defense strategy in the mock murder of Wendell Tucker as they prepare for their court debut next month. Read more...

Genes play a role in sweaty palms A new UCLA study in the February issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery shows strong evidence that sweaty palms syndrome is genetic. Read more...

By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Staff A minority rights coalition is lobbying representatives on the federal, state and UC levels to push for Latino/a appointees to the UC Board of Regents and the chancellorship of UC Riverside. Read more...

  Photo Courtesy of Todd Ferguson U.S. Marine Corps veteran Todd Ferguson (center) is shown here in a C-130 airplane traveling from Big Island in Hawaii to Oahu. Read more...

Click Here to See Larger Image By Jamie Hsiung Daily Bruin Reporter Due to the lack of affordable housing on campus, fourth-year UC Berkeley student Jimmy Bryant, known among friends as “the couch surfer,” has an apartment in another city. Read more...