Sunday, May 24

Health care expansion comes at low price to state

The cost of health care expansion in California would be relatively minimal if the state decides to pursue it, according to a joint study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. Read more...



University librarian Gary Strong ends UCLA chapter

As a high school student in northern Idaho immersed in the pages of “A Passion for Books” – a novel by Lawrence Powell, the namesake of UCLA’s Powell Library – Gary Strong knew he wanted to become a librarian. Read more...

Photo: UCLA’s librarian Gary Strong is preparing to retire after a lifelong career as a librarian and a decade at UCLA.



Hedrick Hall opens Test Kitchen

The smell of spices filled Hedrick dining hall’s Test Kitchen Wednesday night as students dug into plates of mashed potatoes, grilled beef tenderloin and turkey-cranberry flatbread. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Housing and Hospitality chef Gerald Flowers serves a dish in the newly reopened Hedrick dining hall, which is being used as a test kitchen for the new Sproul dining hall.


Starbucks goes green with plastic cups

Starbucks Corp. coffee chain recently introduced a new $1 plastic reusable cup for customers as part of an effort to follow a growing trend of sustainable consumerism, which has also been echoed near UCLA and in its campus coffee shops. Read more...


USAC election board to reform its code

More than one quarter into the school year, promises of undergraduate student government election reform still remain unfulfilled as election officials wait to hear student input from an open forum scheduled for next week. Read more...