This post was updated at 7:06 p.m. About 25 graduate students staged a sit-in in a Moore Hall classroom Thursday afternoon, in response to a recent investigative report which stated that UCLA’s policies and procedures do not sufficiently address racial discrimination incidents among faculty members. Read more...
Photo: Students staged a sit-in Thursday in Moore Hall in response to a report released in October outlining how UCLA insufficiently treated incidents of racial discrimination.
SAN FRANCISCO – The University of California Board of Regents voted Thursday to approve a budget for current operations that assumes an increase in state funding, drawing concern from Gov. Read more...
Photo: University of California President Janet Napolitano and Gov. Jerry Brown discuss the University’s budgetary situation at the UC Regents’ bimonthly meeting on Thursday.
Several student groups are calling for members of the undergraduate student government to defer their stipend increase until next year. About 10 student groups have signed a recently drafted letter that asks the members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council to put the money used to pay for their stipend raises back into a fund dedicated to supporting student groups. Read more...
There are always a few calls that become ingrained in a dispatcher’s memory. Two years ago, dispatcher Eric Dunn answered such a call – a man in a car had cut himself with a knife and his location was unknown. Read more...
Photo: Eric Dunn and Alma Chavez are dispatchers in the UCPD communications department.
Ace Hagar, a third-year undeclared student, died Sept. 30 from injuries sustained in a car crash on Interstate 15. He was 24 years old. Hagar’s family and friends knew him as a loving brother and genuine friend who worked hard to attend his dream school, UCLA, and became the first in his family to go to college. Read more...
Photo: Ace Hagar
New programing and a new location are meant to revamp this year’s Humanities Residential College, an on-campus housing option that caters to residents’ interests in the humanities. Read more...
UCLA is enrolling increasing numbers of international students despite growing competition from universities abroad, according to a recent report from the Institute of International Education. The report, which came out this week, showed that 8,424 international students attended UCLA in the 2012-2013 academic year – up about 1,700 students from the previous year. Read more...
