Wednesday, April 29, 1998 Colleges trim long-term faculty EDUCATION: Tightened budgets force schools to prioritize, assess needs By J. Sharon Yee Daily Bruin Contributor Concerned with rapidly diminishing budgets, many colleges and universities have begun to seriously cut back on the number of permanent faculty being hired as one way to cut costs. Read more...

Wednesday, April 29, 1998 New slates join race for student council ELECTION: Two groups hope to fill void left from decline of Students First! By Dennis Lim Daily Bruin Contributor Praxis and Sanity ’98 will face off in this year’s undergraduate student government elections as the only two slates vying for control of Kerckhoff Hall. Read more...

Tuesday, April 28, 1998 Community Briefs Union measure will be placed on GSA ballot Despite the opposition from SAGE, a referendum on whether graduate students should unionize will be on the ballot in May. Read more...

Tuesday, April 28, 1998 Affirmative action initiative misses ballot DIVERSITY: Organizers to gather more signatures, reverse role of ethnicity in admissions policy By Barbara Ortutay Daily Bruin Contributor Despite the recent uproar surrounding the decline in minority admissions, a student-led campaign to reinstate affirmative action in admissions has not experienced the widespread success some may have expected. Read more...

Tuesday, April 28, 1998 Vaults may hold help for tumor drug resistance RESEARCH: Biochemists link cellular structures with aid in chemotherapy research By Matt Grace Daily Bruin Contributor Nearly a decade after discovering new cellular structures, known as a vaults, scientists have yet to find out what they do. Read more...

Tuesday, April 28, 1998 Vredevoe elected Academic Senate vice chair FACULTY: Professor of Nursing stresses faculty, administrative concerns By Brian Fishman Daily Bruin Contributor The future of the Academic Senate has a new face. Read more...

Tuesday, April 28, 1998 Stacks of Time HISTORICAL: The six university librarians have toiled for decades to create the spine of Powell Library By Michelle Navarro Daily Bruin Senior Staff At the heart of the UCLA campus proudly sit the university’s first buildings, boasting an aura of importance and greatness. Read more...