Sunday, May 17

News briefs

Council approves agenda The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed the University of California Student Association Action agenda for 2003-2004 with a 11-0-0 vote at their general meeting Tuesday night. Read more...



Students’ classes dropped after failing to pay fees

Earlier this week, Sebastian Perkinson, a first-year civil engineering student, checked his MyUCLA Web site, and his entire course schedule had disappeared. All of his classes had been dropped because he was not aware that a notification would no longer be mailed, and as a result, he had not paid his fees on time. Read more...


UC President leaves office

University of California President Richard Atkinson officially retires today, ending an eight-year stint at the helm of the nation’s most prestigious public university system. Atkinson cedes his post to current UC San Diego Chancellor Robert Dynes, appointed in June 2003 by the UC Regents to be the system’s 18th president. Read more...



Offbeat:

There was an old couple who lived in a shoe ““ or boot HELLAM, Pa. ““ Along a two-lane country road, the scenery offers up the architecturally impossible, or so it would seem ““ a 25-foot-tall beige stucco replica of a man’s work boot worthy of Paul Bunyan. Read more...