Monday, May 18

UCLA takes displaced patients

The UCLA Medical Center may be receiving a number of new liver transplant patients after the UC Irvine liver transplant program shut down last Thursday. The Irvine center was closed after the federal government pulled its certification and funding because the medical center had not met federal standards. Read more...


UCOP payments raise concerns

When the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday that the University of California gave its employees $871 million in bonuses, relocation packages, administrative stipends and other forms of cash compensation last fiscal year, the response was quick. Read more...


Regents take up divestment

More than 100 students filled the James West Alumni Center on Monday, standing with linked arms in support of the University of California’s divestment from Sudan, as a committee of the UC Board of Regents approved the creation of a proposal to divest UC holdings from the country. Read more...


Uniting Masonic, academic pursuits

Few students can effectively combine their personal and academic lives the way John Slifko has. The Freemason of 30 years is pursuing a doctorate in cultural geography that examines the relationship of print and freemasonry in early American civil society. Read more...




Students explore Bunche’s legacy

Students in the political science class “Ralph Bunche, Crisis Diplomacy and International Peacekeeping” got a rare opportunity Monday to hear firsthand accounts of the man at the center of their course. Read more...