Illustration by HINGYI KHONG/Daily Bruin   Ettekal is a third-year business-economics student.   By Yashar Ettekal To the many freshman who will call UCLA home for the next four or, if you’re like me, five years, September marks the beginning of a sometimes tumultuous, sometimes intellectually exasperating, yet always fruitful saga. Read more...

  Krause graduated from UCLA in 1999 with a degree in business economics.   By Jason R. Krause I’m writing in response to comments made in Timothy Kudo’s article, “Houston’s speech ruffles feathers” (Daily Bruin, Sept. Read more...

Maegan Carberry   Carberry is a third-year political science student. E-mail her at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Maegan Carberry   We all get those e-mails from Chancellor Carnesale with an invitation to his office hours. Read more...

Uplifting speech appreciated I read the article “Houston’s Speech Ruffles Feathers” (Daily Bruin, Sept. 29) and was immediately outraged. I was at convocation (for the third year in a row), and I was thrilled by the speech given. Read more...

Doug Lief   Lief is a third-year psychology and English student who doesn’t want to be born again, as the process sounds very painful for his mother. Read more...

Michael Schwartz   Schwartz is a fifth-year sociology student who can be reached at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Michael Schwartz   At 12:01 a.m. Read more...

For more than two weeks, the United Transportation Union, which represents 4,400 bus and rail operators in the Los Angeles area, has been on strike against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Read more...