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...
The UCLA Bruin Democrats, Bruin Republicans and Bruin Libertarians faced off against one another for the first time at a debate on campus Tuesday night. The Political Science Student Organization organized the debate, which touched on issues such as the Affordable Care Act, prison reform, immigration reform and the recent government shutdown. Read more...
