Illustration by ERICA PINTO/Daily Bruin By Lisa Klassen Daily Bruin Contributor The re-birth of disco era fashion started with bell-bottom pants and platform shoes. When gold hoop earrings and rock concert tees caught on, there was no doubt that the ’70s were back again. Read more...

Professor, pioneering researcher dies at 84 Dr. Milton I. Roemer, a pioneering health services researcher, teacher and professional whose prescience of industry trends and possibilities led to his significant contributions to health policy in the United States and abroad, died of heart failure Jan. Read more...

  CHRIS BACKLEY Tiffany Butler sells a sweater to first-year student Apurva Chandra earlier this year. ASUCLA increased its minimum pay by 40 cents. By Kimberley Ma Daily Bruin Contributor To stay competitive with the job market, the Associated Students of UCLA has increased wages for student employees above that of California’s new minimum wage of $6.25 an hour, which went into effect Jan. Read more...

  Grace Huang By Marjorie Hernandez Daily Bruin Contributor In a campus known for its diversity, forms of tribalism or affinity groups can create ethnic and cultural barriers among students. Read more...

By Karen Albrecht Daily Bruin Contributor An economic slowdown and recession is predicted to end the longest period of expansion in United States history, according to a fourth quarter report by the UCLA Anderson Business Forecast. Read more...

By My Yen La Daily Bruin Contributor Talk of economic downfall may have begun as whispers, but it became loud and clear as America blasted into the new year. Read more...