Sunday, July 12

In the news:


University workers protest possible salary deductions

University of California workers gathered Thursday to protest the possibility of having money deducted from their salaries and put into the UC retirement fund, saying the university has not adequately studied the fund’s financial health so salary deductions may be unnecessary. Read more...


Bill targets UC pay sessions

In an attempt to intervene in the University of California’s process of improving transparency, the state Senate Education Committee approved 6-1 last Wednesday a bill which would require all discussions regarding executive compensation to be conducted in public meetings. Read more...



Hospital construction continues

Seven years after the announcement that UCLA would be constructing a new medical center, and three years after the initial date that the center was set to be completed, the doors of UCLA’s new medical facility are still more than a year away from opening. Read more...


[ORIENTATION]: UCLA educates, offers aid for STIs

After she had been in college for a year, second-year physiological science student Victoria Muchnik said she noticed students would talk a lot more about their sex lives in high schools, but at UCLA, fewer and fewer students would talk about the sexual aspects of their lives. Read more...


UCSC chancellor dies in fall

In what was an apparent suicide jump, UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton fell to her death from the 43rd floor of a San Francisco apartment building Saturday morning, authorities said. Read more...