While some Bruins will spend the weeks after the holidays doing extra sets of crunches in the hopes of getting their jeans to fit again after some scrumptious, festive food, other students will spend their time crunching numbers to see how they’ll afford their next meal. Read more...

Excitement, cheers, tears of joy. Maybe even some coherent sentences. These are typically prospective students’ initial reactions to finding out they’ve been accepted to UCLA. But reality kicks in later, when these students have to figure out how to pay tuition and housing costs, and when they must work up the courage to open their first financial aid package and find out if they’ll be paying out of pocket or taking out loans. Read more...

Graduate students at UCLA might have to pay taxes on money they don’t make. The United States House of Representatives passed a tax bill Nov. 16 aimed at reforming the tax code system. Read more...

Now that the turkey mania has settled and finals are on the horizon, many UCLA students will find themselves at the Community Programs Office test bank in the coming week, waiting in line and frantically trying to operate a mouse that resembles an eight ball. Read more...

Photo: (Nicole Anisgard Parra/Daily Bruin)

Title IX policies, which prohibit sex or gender discrimination in federally funded educational programs, are incredibly important on college campuses. But ask any student on Bruin Walk how these policies are written – or even where UCLA’s Title IX Office is – and chances are you’ll get little more than a blank stare and maybe some shrugs. Read more...

Photo: The University of California recently opened applications for its Title IX student advisory board. This board needs to focus on its role as a liaison between students and administrators. (Daily Bruin file photo)

UCLA may claim it’s committed to ensuring that its students start their careers with internship experience, but it’s fallen short in supporting students as they enter the job market. Read more...