CVS Caremark announced Wednesday it would stop the sale of all tobacco products at its branch stores, including its Westwood location. The second-largest national pharmacy chain will no longer shelve cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 U.S. Read more...
Photo: CVS Caremark announced Wednesday it will no longer sell cigarettes. It also announced a new campaign to help its customers quit smoking.
University of California President Janet Napolitano is re-evaluating the UC’s tuition policy to better reflect student needs and increase fiscal sustainability, but she has not yet decided on which tuition payment option to use. Read more...
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
Well-known environmental activist and author Erin Brockovich spoke at UCLA on Wednesday about her passion for environmentalism and the award-winning movie based on her life. Read more...
Straightening the tortoise shell-rimmed glasses over the bridge of her nose, she eases herself onto the seat in front of her work table and picks up the scalpel with her fair, wrinkled hands to cut the sheet of wax. Read more...
Photo: Muriel Chastanet shapes a wax prototype of a jewelry piece with a crafting tool, as she has been doing for the past 50 years.
Six months after raising their own monthly stipends, undergraduate student government officials unanimously passed a bylaw amendment Tuesday to bar future salary changes from taking immediate effect. Read more...
UCLA will celebrate Black History Month throughout February with a series of lectures and cultural exhibitions to enlighten the community about black culture and history. On Wednesday, African studies professor Adams Bodomo, from the University of Vienna, will speak on contemporary Africa/China relations and the increasing number of Africans visiting and settling in China in his lecture “Africans in China.” “We live in a media-saturated world in which different issues and perspectives continually compete for our attention,” said Darnell Hunt, director of the UCLA Ralph J. Read more...
