Photos by MARY CIECEK/Daily Bruin Senior Staff To avoid bad luck, a student skips the sixth stair of the Janss Steps, where one of the Janss brothers is believed to have been buried. Read more...

By Linh Tat Daily Bruin Senior Staff Applications for student regent of the University of California for the 2002-03 academic year are due in the chancellor’s office by 5 p.m. Read more...

UCSF report points out nurse shortage As California registered nurses reach the age of retirement, their posts are going unfilled by younger employees, resulting in a statewide shortage. Read more...

By Lily Jamali Daily Bruin Contributor A team of UCLA surgeons in the Heart Transplant Program will test an artificial heart device that may revolutionize cardiac surgery. Read more...

  PRIYA SHARMA/Daily Bruin Yayori Matsui, a Japanese journalist, spoke in Royce Hall Monday about crimes Southeast Asian women suffered during World War II. By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Contributor One of the most atrocious World War II war crimes has gone unrecognized and unpunished, a Japanese feminist journalist said Monday in Royce Hall. Read more...

By Hemesh Patel Daily Bruin Staff For the past decade, emergency departments around the country, including UCLA, have been experiencing overcrowding and financial problems. In response to this problem, the state assembly is holding a hearing Feb. Read more...

  Photos by PRIYA SHARMA/Daily Bruin Michael Soldatenko, a researcher from Santa Monica College, makes use of the University Archives in UCLA’s College Library to look into the history of the formation of the Chicano studies program at UCLA. Read more...