By Benjamin Parke Daily Bruin Contributor Lydia Camarillo was never someone to accept things as they were. “From my mother I learned that, if you really wanted to have a better place for your family, you had to speak out,” said Camarillo who, as chief executive officer of the 2000 Democratic National Convention ““ to be held in Los Angeles in August ““ will be the first Latina to hold such a position. Read more...

By Dharshani Dharmawardena Daily Bruin Contributor Living in a suburb of San Francisco saturated with American pop culture, second-year math student Leanne Dare never saw many Chinese Americans outside of her family. Read more...

By Timothy Kudo Daily Bruin Staff Students were given a rare opportunity Saturday to meet with three members of a group that make some of the most important decisions in the UC system ““ the UC Board of Regents. Read more...

By Linh Tat Daily Bruin Staff Flowers from their children weren’t enough. About 3,000 women converged upon the Federal Building on Sunday to demand a more serious gift from the government ““ stricter gun control laws ““ as part of the national “Million Mom March 2000.” While the mothers advocated for new gun control laws during the march from Glendon Avenue to the Federal Building, about 400 counter-protesters standing between Veteran Avenue and Sepulveda Boulevard held up signs opposing stricter laws. Read more...

By Melody Wang Daily Bruin Contributor With an endless torrent of advertising stressing the importance of the Census 2000, the Half Shekel Campaign Census comes as no big surprise. Read more...

By Neal Narahara Daily Bruin Senior Staff Sometimes meandering, often inspiring, and always with a sense of fearlessness, 20 undergraduates presented what was, for some of them, the fruition of years of work Friday at the Second Annual Westwind Conference for Undergraduate Research and Writing. Read more...