All former DB staffers are welcome to join us. The benefits are e.g., enormous, huge, staggering... (editorial types: you could fit the adjective to the available space in 24 pt Bodoni Bold, but sadly we don't support that font, sorry).

• Registration is free; subscription is optional but much appreciated.
• You must be a registered DB alumnus and maintain your contact data to post articles or comments.

Personal Profile

From your profile you can keep friends up to date and post brief news items. Subscribers can also publish longer articles. Link to and embed feeds from your YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc., accounts.

Forums

All alumni can participate in the forums and comment on posts in the News and elsewhere on the site (more interactive features are coming soon).

Calendar

Post announcements of forthcoming events in the calendar.

Gallery

Contribute images to the DB image gallery (or include individual images in news items).

Some features may not be operational at the time you join. The site's potential grows constantly on a labor-of-love basis.

Membership requests are reviewed before activation, and email addresses are confirmed before posting is enabled. Email addresses are not published on the site or shared with third parties unless you choose to do so. When you register, please include your class year and roles you played at the DB in your personal statement. You will be able to comment on posts immediately; we'll enable posting after you have confirmed your address.

When you register, we suggest you use the name by which you were known at the DB. Right now we have no provision for AKAs. If you are a married woman, please put your former surname in parentheses after your given name. If your name has otherwise changed, please edit your profile after activation and put a note in the statement field.

Commentary

• Members may post Updates from their profiles and comment on many feature pages.
• The site does not exercise prior restraint. All personal posts and comments are attributed to the respective author, who is solely responsible.
• Irrelevant, spurious or ad hominem posts will be deleted without notice in the sole discretion of the editors.

Reporting

• Members can be assigned Reporter and/or Editor status; each confers additional rights and responsibilities. If you are interested in building the site and its content, please write to the editor
• Just to have a modicum of continuity, we suggest that writers follow the AP style manual.
• Headlines are limited to about 80 characters. Your lead is abbreviated on the home page preview, so good ol' top-down structure is usually best.
• Blog and Feature articles will be activated after review by the editors.

If you can spare a bit of change, we would appreciate your subscription for $18 per year. (Wow; what a deal! About a nickel a day, even better in leap years. Look for the money under the sofa cushions!)

As you've no doubt heard, there's no such thing as a free lunch, and our web world is the same. (You've probably also heard how people are making zillions by displaying Google ads on their websites. Right.)

Subscribers have more opportunities to publish on the site:

• expanded personal profile with space for document storage - such as PDFs of your recent, brilliant treatise(s).
• a free listing for your business in the DBAN directory.

You'll also be eligible to serve on boards and teams that will (we hope) be needed as the site and the membership grow. If we ever get ahead, we'll use any surplus productively to benefit UCLA or DB alumni. It is in short the greatest bargain offered anywhere on this site.