Thursday, May 21



Palma/Saracho may run for USAC president

Members of the Students First! slate have remained tight-lipped about the students who will run for next year’s undergraduate student government under their slate, but the most likely candidate for president is Allende Palma/Saracho, the current internal vice president. Read more...


Program battles Mideast drug abuse

Research partners from Israel, Egypt and the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute have collaborated to combat substance abuse in the Middle East. The researchers spoke Tuesday about their efforts to gather data about drug abuse in Israel and Egypt, and the cultural and political hurdles of working together in the Middle East. Read more...


Kwok remembered as loving, playful

People were more important than anything else to Karen Kwok, an 18-year-old UCLA business and economics student who died April 20. “Her goal in life was to love people,” said Aida Sun, a first-year microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics student and Kwok’s roommate. Read more...


Third-year student killed in collision

Alexandra Silina, a third-year economics student, died Friday morning in Studio City when the car she was riding in was struck by another vehicle. Silina, 20, was a transfer student from Glendale Community College. Read more...