Alexandra Wallace, a third-year Political Science student at UCLA, says she has received death threats since a video rant about Asian students using their phones inside the library went viral in recent days. "Wallace contacted university police early Sunday evening after receiving numerous threats via e-mail and phone," UCPD spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein told the Daily Bruin. more ›

Diamond Leung still loves baseball and journalism. But you'd understand if he didn't. After five years at the Riverside-Press Enterprise, two of those as the Dodgers beat writer, Leung, 27, was laid off from his post after the paper eliminated most of its baseball coverage. The San Francisco native and UCLA grad, at right, moved back to his hometown and did what any young, self respecting unemployed baseball lover would do: start a blog. The aptly named Diamond Notes is a baseball news source that aggregates some of the more interesting finds others may miss. We caught up with him yesterday, touching on the Dodgers diminishing World Series hopes, life after journalism and why he doesn't watch baseball on T.V. more ›

"We will not be selling these kinds of ads as long as I remain the editor of this news paper," Daily Bruin Editor Anthony Pesce wrote in a note today. He's talking about the full-page ad for Haagen-Dazs wrapped around today's front page that was "specifically designed by a clever marketing department to fool you into thinking - if only for a few seconds - that my staff wrote the content that appeared on the front page." He and the newspaper's board--keep in mind, UCLA does not have a journalism department--talked about why the ad appeared in the first place: "The reality of our financial situation is grim, and the fact of the matter is that we would have been forced to cut thousands of dollars from an ever-tightening budget if we had not run this advertisement." Some staff tried to forfeit their pay in lieu of having the ad, but not everyone was able to take the cut. (Via LAObserved) more ›

Pediatric doctors at the Mattel Children's Hospital rallied against President Bush last week upon hearing that he might actually veto a bill that would invest $35 million in children's health insurance, SCHIP. It was vetoed anyway. This week the UCLA School of Public Health received a $4.25 million grant to research/improve health in low-income families. -- Daily Bruin I guess we could start by, gee...investing in child health insurance for low income families? Football... more ›

Photo by letujimbo via Flickr The Daily Bruin has done great coverage of the UC scandals over the last several years -- this week they ran a front page article about the resignation of UC President Robert Dynes. He is also the former Chancellor of UCSD, and a current physics professor at UC Berkeley. Dynes leadership came under fire during a 2005 scandal when it was revealed that top officials in the UC system... more ›

- El irony: Mayor Tony cancels media appearance b/c media will ask him about the fact that he's been playing hide-the-taquito with... the media - Daily News - LA Times' advertising and cash flow sunk by 27% last quarter - Bloomberg - It really is a gorgeous building, Remembering Bullocks Wilshire - Franklin Ave. - Tijunga alleged burglar ends up in a standoff with cops in Glendale - Daily News - Pro-lifers are calling... more ›

- Approximately 40 tenants of an Echo Park landlord - who also happens to be a UCLA professor who teaches at the business school - protested yesterday outside of his classroom in Westwood for illegally evicting Section 8 renters - Daily Bruin - Phil Spector's driver who once said that he heard the famed producer say that the thought he might have killed someone, today testified that sometimes he misunderstands what Spector says -... more ›

- Malingering gets accosted by the craziest things - The Real Malingering - An LAPD detective was arrested for working as a celebrity bodyguard while being on paid medical leave from the department - LAT - MTV reality curse continues: The Bonaduces are getting divorced after 17 years of bliss - TMZ - 21 UCLA students were charged hefty fines by RIAA for downloading music - Daily Bruin - Millions of embedded videos on... more ›

- (1) Go to Circuit City today after 2pm, (2) ask if they have Super Paper Mario in stock, (3) if they don't have it in stock ask and then receive a Circuit City $20 gift card, (4) dance around with your free $20, (5) thank your pals at LAist and at - Joystiq more ›

- Jimmy Carter has been in LA building houses for the needy. He's 82 - Voice of America more ›

- Does UCLA really want us to believe that they have to pay cops overtime to provide security for the Undie Runs? On-duty LAPD wouldn't find it in their hearts to just happen to mosey over to Westwood a few times a year for a few hours to protect co-eds in unmentionables? - Daily Bruin - Free, online, ad-supported version of Photoshop coming this fall - TechCrunch - Bad news: New Angel outfielder Garry... more ›

Daily Bruin staff filed a formal complaint against the LAPD for mistreatment and denial of access to reporting early Sunday morning as students began to party hard in Westwood. The celebrations for the victory over USC on Saturday night reached the pinnacle when partygoers on Frat Row decided to pile trash in the middle of Landfair Ave and set it afire. Daily Bruin staff writers who produced identification were still denied access to see... more ›

Police cruisers and fire trucks were rolling into Westwood immediately after Saturday's game, police helicopters circled over UCLA throughout the night. Students ran through the streets cheering "F*ck SC!" and "Go Bruins!" but were quickly stopped by the numerous patrolling police cruisers. In a sense, victory celebrations were stuffed by a copious LAPD presence. When students (some naked) partying in the streets of Frat Row set an old couch on fire, LAPD descended upon... more ›

- You know you've accomplished something good when you go outside and burn a couch. You know you've really accomplished something good when the cops shoot rubber bullets at UCLA kids - Daily Bruin more ›

The UCLA police department identified the officer caught electrifying the student who did not produce his college ID card as Terrence Duren, an 18-year veteran of the UCPD. Duren hasn't had the smoothest career in law enforcement. He came to Westwood after being fired from the infamous Long Beach PD. A few years after being hired by UCLA he was accused of using his nightstick to choke a fratboy and the university asked the... more ›

- Hey it's Adoption Saturday, so go downtown, and... well... we think they want us to adopt today - Met News more ›

The reaction across campus to Tuesday night's tasering of a student by UCPD officers is one of shock and disgust. Many question how tasering is appropriate force against someone who fails to even threaten to strike an officer. "I realize when looking at these kind of arrest tapes that they don't always show the full picture. ... But that six minutes that we can watch just seems like it's a ridiculous amount of force... more ›

On Tuesday night around 11pm, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a UCLA student, was stunned several times with a Taser after he wasn't able to produce his anti-Taser device (his Bruin card) and did not leave the CLICC Lab in Powell Library in a timely manner, the Daily Bruin reports. The video appears to show that the shocking continued while Tabatabainejad was handcuffed. As Tabatabainejad was being dragged through the room by two officers, he repeated in... more ›

- Felony possession was the case that they gave him. Big Snoop Dogg gets busted for having a retractable baton in his computer bag, and the OC authorities have nothing better to do than charge him with what could get him three years in the hizzy. - AP - College student who created the homemade (but still illegal) Boarding Pass generator was a Google intern - CNET - Google digs around in the cushions... more ›

LACityNerd comments on LA Curbed's commentary on Daily Bruin's article about DOT's proactive enforcement of cars in driveway aprons at sidewalks. We've had our own parking problems in Westwood, but as to parking in aprons, you deserve a ticket -- it gets in the way of our bikes. As one commenter on Curbed said, "Living in the City 101: YOU CANNOT PARK ON THE SIDEWALK." NPR reports that in Los Angeles, 67.8 percent of... more ›

What's a brotha gotta do to get a decent rickshaw ride these days? - AP more ›

Cigar-smoking right-wing nutjob Rush Limbaugh, the former Oxycontin addict, has been arrested in West Palm Beach, Florida for prescription drug fraud. According to the AP, authorities discovered he'd gotten 2,000 painkillers in 6 months, prescribed by 4 doctors. That is, by our count, more than 10 pills per day. Limbaugh was released on $3,000 bail — how much Oxycontin would that buy? more ›

Both USC and UCLA's student papers look at interesting homeless issues today. The Daily Bruin heads out into Westwood to talk to area homeless people as they examine the court ruling invalidating LA's stringent anti-homelessness policy. USC looks at students without homes and how some of them have begun sleeping in the stacks in the 24 hour library. more ›

About a week before the unaffiliated Bruin Alumni Association, led by Andrew Jones, and their UCLAProfs.com website became big news, Independent Souces was already on the case, highlighting some of the most left-of-center statements by the UCLA faculty as compiled in the dossiers listed on the site. more ›

For some reason, we haven't been able to get to these stories before now. more ›

LAist never expected the Intelligent Design to make its way here but last week while we (ed. note: well, me, mostly) were on the East coast, the Association of Christian Schools International filed a civil rights suit against the UC system for refusing to certify high school science courses that use text challenging the theory of evolution and Darwinism. more ›

There are some interesting things about this year's college graduating class. CalTech's graduating chemical engineering class is all women, a first for the school. The uniqueness of that was not mentioned in Sandra Tsing Loh's commencement speech but that the physics grad herself was the keynote speaker in the year of this accomplishment probably says enough on its own. The Daily Bruin, meanwhile, reminds us that this class of 2005 is also the freshman class of 09/11. more ›

Never fear Bruins! If you find yourself in Asia and desperate for some of the good ol' blue and gold, you can go to one of the 20 UCLA stores open in South Korea and China (and, soon, Japan) and pick up your alumni tee or cap. We're not sure if they're stocking face paint and foam fingers yet, though. more ›

What kind of Southern California is this? Since July 1st, we've had over 25 inches of rain. Over two feet! This current storm is expected to drop another three inches on us over the long President's Day weekend. Watching local news this morning, we know that traffic accidents have already been caused. Maybe we'll just stay in today. more ›

Nearly a year after police shot and killed a driver who was backing his car into a patrol vehicle, a similar incident took place over the weekend. This time, the driver was a 13 year old boy. The Los Angeles Times gives a detailed account from the police about what happened but the most interesting part of the piece is the fact that Chief Bratton had called for changes to policy regarding use of deadly force in exactly these kinds of situations but that those changes have yet to be approved. more ›