Wednesday, May 20

UCLA tries out required alcohol awareness course

For the next four years, incoming freshmen will be required to take AlcoholEdu, an online alcohol awareness course, UCLA announced Wednesday. As UCLA’s first mandatory alcohol education program, AlcoholEdu is an online class that surveys students’ knowledge of and experiences with alcohol. Read more...


Twins’ first transplant complete

On Feb. 16, Nick Draper, a 7-month-old baby who had been awaiting a heart transplant since birth, continued to fight to live after receiving a new heart in an operating room of the Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA. Read more...


Loony tunes

“What’s the point of a revolution, without general, general copulation, copulation, copulation?” belted the cast of “Marat-Sade” at their Friday night rehearsal. Perhaps it’s not the conventional bellowings of college co-eds kicking off a three-day weekend, but this is also not a conventional play. Read more...


Dynes admits policy lapses

Correction appended University of California officials acknowledged violations of UC policy and reaffirmed their commitment to accountability and transparency in compensation practices at a Senate Education Committee hearing Wednesday. Read more...


Dean brings fresh appeal

As elected chairman of the Democratic Nominating Committee and a frontrunner for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, Howard Dean has faced larger, more critical audiences ““ but Wednesday evening he spoke to a UCLA lecture hall filled with student supporters to its 227-person capacity. Read more...


Howard Dean to speak on campus today

Howard Dean, elected chairman of the Democratic Nominating Committee and early frontrunner in the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, is scheduled to speak on campus today as part of the party’s fundraising campaign. Read more...