Wednesday, August 12

In the news:

News Briefs

HIV study finds no ethnic ties Depression among HIV-infected women is due to socioeconomic status and prior psychiatric history instead of ethnic differences, according to a Medical Center psychiatry department study. Read more...


State cuts will affect UC funding

By Sara Chon Daily Bruin Contributor The $2.48 billion mid-year budget cut proposal made by Gov. Gray Davis last week should pass through the legislature with bipartisan support, according to numerous state officials. Read more...


Admissions begins training readers

By Noah Grand Daily Bruin Reporter The admissions office is training readers to review freshman applications based on an interim Academic Senate report that has not been approved by the body as a whole. Read more...


Media coverage needed to uncover truth

  The Associated Press Photographer Nick Ut’s 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during Vietnam. By Leo Wallach Daily Bruin Contributor Journalists complain they are denied access to U.S. Read more...


Professor dies of brain cancer at age 62

By Azadeh Mirbod Daily Bruin Contributor Remembered as generous, caring and funny, David Stephen Sigman did more than just teach chemistry and biological chemistry ““ he was a mentor, colleagues say. Read more...



Pentagon puts clamp on media

  The Associated Press International media crews cover the news conference of Abdul Salam Zaeef, Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Oct. 31 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Zaeef told reporters U.S. Read more...