Story archive for February 2008

Friday, Feb. 29

• Keeping the faith at college

• Many mourn, seek answers

• Fee hike looms over UC students

• USAC still looking for elections leader

• Event to probe problems for entertainment professionals

• University, union still at odds

• Conference connects China and US

• Offensive flow returns in rout

• Defense keeps UCLA in control

• Bruins can’t overcome Sun Devils’ intensity

• Baseball looks to shake odd season opening in invitational

• Students rising to meet marathon’s challenges

• Bruins determined not to falter again

• Able pitchers, others travel to San Diego

• Team seeks refined individual performances

• Track and field men head to Seattle for MPSFs hoping to qualify for NCAAs

• Grades / Groove

• Improv sculptor comes to Hammer

• Reality TV doesn’t have to be mindless

• Save elephants, save the world

• Men’s volleyball hopes to start turnaround on trip to Indiana

• Screen Scene: "Be Kind Rewind"

• After avoiding one upset, water polo hopes to avert another at UCSB

• Editorial: Keep higher education obtainable for everyone

• Screen Scene: "The Other Boleyn Girl"

Thursday, Feb. 28

• Bruins explore heritage through music

• AAP celebrates 35 years

• EMT program teaches skills

• Superdelegate system splits Democrats

• Students to mix with professionals

• Vigil will honor alum killed by O.C. police

• History in motion & music

• Drive out the Sun Devils

• Scandal stains another program

• UCLA victorious, 5-4, in six-hour game

• Pluimer, Bruin squad prep for final games

• Team takes win as chance to learn

• Bruins keep control of dual match

• (In)Justice Department caught up in politics

• Editorial Cartoon

• Students! Earth needs you

• Letter to the Editor

• Thesis addresses apartheid struggles

Wednesday, Feb. 27

• Remembering a journalist

• Class doesn’t preach, stresses the literary

• How do I: Bravely request dreaded letters

• Castro’s departure a catalyst for Cuba

• Film examines death penalty

• Shipp shoots to break 3-point slump

• Swimers, divers head into first stage of postseason competition

• Bubble teams are what it’s all about

• Bruins leave Northridge in the dark

• Softball looks to carry momentum

• Baylor hands Bruins second straight loss

• Chiropractors offer alternative form of relief

• Nader quickly becoming political dinosaur

• Play connects fairy tale to reality

• Editorial: Violence in protest unjustified, ineffective

• Eastern medicine spreading

• Editorial: Survey of teen knowledge outdated

• Culinary Connoisseur: “The Stinking Rose”

• America’s dirtiest home videos

• Consume information to fight disordered eating

• Filmmaker challenges ordinary

• Therapists use dance to alleviate a bevy of physical, mental health conditions

• Awards bail on talented but unrecognized actor

• Letter to the Editor

Tuesday, Feb. 26

• Many cars towed from zone

• Same-sex partners struggle with status

• Bruin custom draws many

• Trader Joe’s to open in Westwood

• Lecture to honor journalist killed on job

• Computer memory aids communication

• ‘Spring Break 101’ offers tips to stay safe

• MySpace co-founder discusses business

• Bruins need to finish strong

• Win solidified in final moments

• Powerlifting team builds strength over time

• Baseball testing options in opening games of season

• Bruins, three teams tied for second

• Living the theater life in America

• We can be smart about sex in the media

• Soundbite: The Raveonettes

• Week in Photos: Feb. 18 - Feb. 24

• Unsupported soloists do not command an audience

• Editorial Cartoon

• Letters to the Editor

Monday, Feb. 25

• Westbrook steps up in comeback

• Ducks outlast UCLA in Oregon

• Bruins adjust defense to shut down Oregon

• Love faces pressure from Ducks, shows versatility

• Bruins almost upstaged as Ducks defy the script

• Wet weather shrinks opening home series

• Volleyball veers from game plan, victory

• Utah deals gymnastics first defeat of season

• Softball perfect through 5-game tournament

• Art exhibit enables students to speak out

• Sweatshops not just a foreign problem

• Student business groups fill a void

• Houses vie for top honors with return of Greek Week

• True Bruin program lacks substance

• A fresh and candid voice

• Sex, drugs and media corruption

• Weekend Review: “Headshots”

• California fails to budget for future

• Tribute celebrates iconic actress

• Letter to the Editor

• Genre-bending artists aren’t just copycats

Sunday, Feb. 24

• Editorial: Insurers must stop cheating patients

Friday, Feb. 22

• Event inspires hope, change

• Activists hit with restraining order

• An exercise in faith and discipline

• Proposed bill to aid diversity education

• A very hands-on research opportunity

• Examining the roots of campus violence

• UCLA kicks off Entrepreneur Week

• UC fires back at union over leafletting

• A little Sin City makes its way to the Hill

• Celebrating heritage beyond February

• Reserves finish off Beavers

• Team foresees fierce matchup

• Bruins to play season opener

• Formidable meet ahead with Utah

• Defense holds it together in late win over Beavers

• Softball team gearing up for Palm Springs

• Seeking a late-season energy upsurge

• McCain is taking Bush’s cake – and eating it too

• Violence bred by male culture

• Editorial: Be aware of implications of racial stereotypes

• Letters to the Editor

• Art for AIDS’ sake

• Screen Scene: “Charlie Bartlett”

• Screen Scene: “Vantage Point”

• Music makes its mark

• Artists hotdog their talent

• Steaks can make the cut for thrifty cooks

• Looking to be seen

Thursday, Feb. 21

• UCLA files for injunction

• History of campus mags

• Student sees beyond immigration status

• UCLA alumni help run the red carpet

• Student members give input to many campus committees

• Living the green card dream

• Newsmagazines may gain more funding

• Professor receives grant for mapping project

• Students open their hearts to support UCLA LGBT Center

• Recent increase in shootings ignites debate about causes

• Popular TV shows set to air

• OSCAR OMNISCIENCE

• UCLA prepares for win-hungry Beavers

• Coach ends years of towel-waving support

• Bruins ready for Oregon road play

• Self-inflicted errors lead to loss

• Bruins working to defeat old foes

• Rise up and fight for the right to higher student fees

• Delayed trials for alleged terrorists won’t bring closure on 9/11

• Letters to the Editor

Wednesday, Feb. 20

• Ballot trouble in L.A.

• How do I: Sleep at night and less in class

• UCLA campus construction update

• Struggling with noncitizen status

• Deportation of father leaves son challenges

• Bruin baseball means business

• Freshmen fuel college game

• UCLA undaunted by week’s busy schedule

• Offense lacking for men’s team

• Performance enhancers stimulate scrutiny

• Editorial: Vigilant voters can sidestep confusion

• Protest against Marine recruitment hurts peace efforts

• Hip Hop Appreciation Week more than music

• Theater Review: “College the Musical: A Musical about College”

• Blind author shares literary visions

• Races for U.S. presidency, best picture not so different

• Queer Alliance rallies against discrimination

Tuesday, Feb. 19

• Cell phone snatched

• UC to appeal union motion

• Students dance the night away for pediatric AIDS

• Science&Health: Study links diet soda to health issues

• Human simulations give complex insight

• Motion to legalize apron parking still controversial

• Armenian students host speakers on heritage

• Defense wins rivalry game

• Look: Who’s talking now?

• Veteran producer discusses Oscars

• Bruins shaky in loss to Trojans

• Weekend Review: “Some Girl(s)”

• Men’s tennis impresses in Washington against top teams

• Luc is back – in a big way

• Gossip is better with a British accent

• Ballet company finds audiences

• Mayo made a nonfactor this time around

• Men’s track and field stumbles at separate meets

• Men’s volleyball splits games with Hawai’i, going 1-1 over weekend

• Concentrating on team play brings Vegas wins to Bruins

• 4x400m relay clocks in with top-20 time

• Gymnastics improves to 11-0

• Women’s tennis clinches win over Fresno State

• USC edges UCLA in swim and dive meet

• Men’s sexual health services too limited

• Fee increases to offset budget cuts would constrict UC enrollment

• NSU Culture night

• Editorial Cartoon

• Women’s water polo stays undefeated after three-game MPSF weekend

Friday, Feb. 15

• Nuclear reactors scrutinized

• Feature Photo: Bruin Walk blooms for Valentine’s Day

• Leader strives to model change

• Drop in gas prices not likely to last

• Science&Health: Drumming up health benefits

• Some question regents’ salaries

• Once more, this time with feeling

• USC game will be pivotal

• Softball team heading to Sin City

• Tennis goes into tournament undefeated

• Bruins not planning to drop the No. 1 ball

• Men’s team divides for meets

• Track squads to head to Arkansas

• Professor reviews should lose top-secret status

• Editorial: Struggling students need room, board too

• Banned frat will clean up its act, redefine brotherhood

• University must sever its financial ties with toxic war

• Play takes modern look at Oedipus

• Screen Scene: “Definitely, Maybe”

• Top 5 things I’ll miss about the writers’ strike

Thursday, Feb. 14

• BREAKING NEWS
  Illinois shooting leaves 6 dead

• Students fight fee increases

• Election may depend on few

• Aggregators make sense of wild Web

• Prominent black UCLA alumni helped shape university’s culture

• Ashe Center’s system confuses students

• Students struggle when facing flu season, midterms

• Speakers to address oppression, Jena 6

• Price of stamps to increase by a penny

• To Bombay and back

• Holiday is just another night out

• After two years, she’s leading the goal

• Swim, dive teams look forward to finally taking on ’SC

• Tennis gains solid win over LMU

• Party training children keeps minds in diapers

• UCLA’s smoking gun – isn’t

Wednesday, Feb. 13

• Unwinding outside Westwood

• Food Review: West Burton Coffee and Tea

• Magazine merges new, old counterculture

• Trade in that textbook for a DVD

• UCLA loses patron

• ‘Crash’ director speaks to cluster

• Gifts key to getting to valentine’s heart

• Club offers taste of wine knowledge

• The National makes way for more shopping

• Love offers lessons to learn from loss

• Teams vying for top seeds

• No. 8 women’s tennis returns home

• Football spring scrimmage location to change

• Class seats should go to highest bidder

• Researchers heal hearts dealing with rejection

• Governor, will you be our Valentine?

• Healthy lifestyles can prevent clogged arteries

• Remove superdelegates of super power, give it back to voters

• Editorial Cartoon

• Brain chemicals significant in stimulating love

Tuesday, Feb. 12

• Message of love, with hope

• Students use high-tech phones in busy lives

• Media change, labs adapt

• Businesses in Westwood offer UCLA discounts

• Course challenges variety of participants

• Travel vendors offer deals, info

• Site reveals grades by professors

• ‘Think Pink’ jerseys up for bid

• Athletic but not politically active

• Flirts use an assortment of teasing techniques

• Writer garners personal praise

• Hard practice, time off pays for women’s golf

• Indian caste system still very much an issue

• Questionable pass part of Huskies’ physical play

• Letter to the Editor

• A lovely night for some jazz

• Soundbite: Hot Chip

• Editorial Cartoon

• Fashion Week’s role is changing

• Feature Photo: No love for foul weather

Monday, Feb. 11

• Students make the cut at charity event

• WGA strike’s end appears to be in sight

• Getting on the right track

• Bruins suffer unexpected defeat

• Men’s volleyball gets back on its feet

• Team’s showing strangely mediocre

• The filmmaker side of life

• Prescription abuse quietly rising

• Women’s team gets pretty in pink in win over Huskies

• Bruins unable to stop Huskies’ reserves

• Battle of the sexes is over

• Take your date to a jam session

• Collison struggles in Washington game

• Rules for independent

• Editorial: Card rate increases might stifle economy

• Watered-down sound keeps ear of listeners

• Softball wins 4 of 5 in weekend tournament

• Weekend Review: “Li’l Abner”

• Letter to the Editor

• Gymnastics team hits season highs at Chicago meet

• Women’s water polo outlasts USC to take Stanford Invitational championship

• Week in Photos: Feb. 3 - Feb. 9

Friday, Feb. 8

• Coming races to be decisive

• Architecture’s applicable outlet

• Diving into SEALs fitness

• Economic outlook bleak for job-seekers

• Panel wary of military attacks

• Music keeping it reel

• Clutch free throws save close game

• Hoping to rekindle on-court fire

• Hurdler dismissed from track team

• Bruins to sport pink for breast cancer research

• Young players bring a positive season outlook

• Screen Scene: “Fool’s Gold”

• Seaworthy chicken pasta

• Paris more than just ‘Hottie’

• Last Clinton presidency not all that

• Editorial: Donating yourself in every sense of the word

• Slide show: Measuring love one lock at a time

• Shriver’s speech just stardust

• Slide show: Looking to be Seen

• Slide show: Annual undergraduate juried art show

Thursday, Feb. 7

• Bruins to face weakened Cougar rivals

• Softball determined to have successful season

• UCLA signs 23 football recruits

• Lack of focus set volleyball team up for loss against crosstown rivals

• Tennis continues winning streak with a victory over San Diego

• Goldman Sachs settles with UC

• State, student votes differ

• For artists, MySpace leads to gallery space

• Proposal plans to raise parking rate

• Students set to donate hair for children’s charity

• UCLA Law School receives $1.5 million gift

• Panel to focus on building US-Iran foreign relations

• Reality TV isn’t this good

• Out For A Spin

• You’re making electoral history (really!)

• Opera laughs at traditional boundaries

• Don’t just vote – stay active to cause change

Wednesday, Feb. 6

• A grant for China education

• Clinton, McCain lead race

• Young voters trading apathy for involvement

• Obama is campus favorite

• UCLA researcher’s house targeted again

• Book program recognized for aid to Middle East

• New coaches set to sign prized recruits

• Volleyball eager for ’SC rematch

• Women’s water polo overpowers Hartwick

• Forward’s injury to challenge Bruins in Washington

• Electing to work polls is tiring but valuable experience

• Bruin conservatives comfortable on campus

• Intimate flamenco through ‘Signs and Wonders’

• Food Review: "Father's Office"

• Agent’s book shares secrets of industry

• Playwright urges us not to hate the player

• Hannah Montana marks state of decline

• Gossip Web site brings out immaturity

• Editorial: Too many deserving students left behind

• Editorial: Elementary school does not need to go digital

• Editorial Cartoon

• Letters to the Editor

Tuesday, Feb. 5

• Ringing in the Chinese New Year

• Extension branches out

• California Propositions

• 2008 Presidential Candidates

• UCLA readies for Northwest

• ‘World Stew’ show stirs things up

• Should we sacrifice class for success?

• ‘Li’l Abner’ a blast from the past

• Don’t compromise ethics voting for those who do

• More to appraisal than meets the eye

• Sexual abuse issues should be discussed, not taboo topics

• Will Leitch puts power back into fans’ hands in new book

• Letters to the Editor

• Soundbite: Vampire Weekend

• Feature Photo: Bruins speak at Elementary school

• Undefeated Bruins to play first home game

• Polling Places

• Editorial Cartoon

• Soundbite: Natasha Bedingfield

Monday, Feb. 4

• Obama rally fills Pauley Pavilion

• Women have new political presence

• Campus gossip Web sites satisfy curious students while bringing up legal issues

• Keeping up with the Ralphses

• New lollipop may be a candy-coated solution for cavities

• Bruins easily take down Wildcats

• GameDay passion knows no bounds

• Men’s volleyball nabs third straight match

• Strong individual performances outshine team’s weekend losses

• Team lands win in Washington

• Personal, school records set at track invitational

• Mbah a Moute out with ankle injury

• Westbrook dominates court against Arizona

• Despite strong start, Bruins trumped by Cardinals

• Livin’ the ‘Dorm Life’ in cyberspace

• Columnist Tristan Reed's take on the 2008 Propositions

• Editorial: Diplomacy, health plan give Obama a step up

• Editorial: McCain’s leadership outshines Romney’s

• Culinary Connoisseur: California Vegan

• Clinton has failed to justify her Iraq vote

• Fine dining becomes affordable

• Clinton brings capability and strength, deserves more credit

• Week in Photos: Jan. 27 - Feb. 2

• Editorial Cartoon

• Women's water polo breezes through LMU match

• Profanity with purpose is marketable, relevant

Friday, Feb. 1

• Candidates debate in L.A. area

• At the intersection of art and film

• Center reaches diverse students

• Union rejects UC contract offer

• An exhibition of end-to-end excellence

• Mbah a Moute back from concussion

• With ESPN paying a visit, let’s make a statement for the Pac-10

• Castanets rocks to its own beat

• Faculty who donate to candidates set civic example

• Museums get trendy

• Volleyball prepares to face No. 9 Irvine

• Screen Scene: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"

• Student ensembles invite new crowd

• Animal testing should not pass with other options available

• Bears get best of low-scoring Bruins

• Pre-Code series begins

• Editorial: Add CSO escort hours for more safety

• Water polo coach suspended for two games

• Letters to the Editor

• Select members of women’s track traveling north for invite

• Swim and dive team braces for home meet against Cal, Stanford

• Men’s track and field to compete in Seattle this weekend

• Bruins seek challenge in LMU

• ‘Truth’ of TV hard to swallow

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