Julien D’Avanzo, a resident assistant for Rieber Hall 3 South, died early this morning after falling from a third floor balcony of the Saxon Suites. According to a letter from the UCLA Office of Residential Life, D’Avanzo, a third-year history student, fell at approximately 1 a.m. Read more...

Amid protests from local community groups and politicians, the U.S. Army will be offering 10 acres of Veterans Affairs land near Westwood to commercial developers. The land includes three buildings ““ Holderman Hall and Munemori Hall, each a two-story Army Reserve Center building, and a detached maintenance building ““ for a total of about 83,406 square feet, according to a statement on the U.S. Read more...

Candidates for next year’s Undergraduate Students Association Council waited patiently for their names to be drawn out of a bag, keeping their fingers crossed for a prime piece of Bruin Walk real estate. Read more...

The two Democratic gubernatorial candidates Steve Westly and Phil Angelides have proposed broad educational reforms that they say will increase the access and affordability of public colleges in California. Read more...

Thinking back to 20 years ago, it’s the splashing in yellow rainwater that Antonina Sergieff vividly recalls. The third-year graduate student didn’t know it then, but the unnatural color of those puddles in her hometown of Gomel, Belarus were due to radioactive particles spewing from a nuclear explosion 80 miles away. Read more...

Monica Sanchez Rivas was named the 2006-2007 Graduate Students Association president Tuesday night, beating her opponent, Anthony Dunbar, by 37.4 percent. The other three positions on the ballot were uncontested. Read more...

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