Tuesday, August 4

Weeklong GSA election starts today

Graduate students can log on to the MyUCLA Web site and start voting for next year’s Graduate Student Association officers today. The GSA election begins at noon, and students will be able to vote 24 hours a day for a week until noon on April 22. Read more...


UCLA ties doctor to lab misconduct

The UCLA Office for Protection of Research Subjects determined on March 30 that UCLA researcher John Fahey “was engaged in human subjects research” for the controversial malariotherapy treatment going on in China. Read more...


Education shouldn’t wilt while military gorges

Allowing defense allocations to increase dramatically while cutting education spending is a destructive and shortsighted policy. The United States spent nearly $400 billion on military expenditures this fiscal year while, at the same time, California faces a $34.6 billion budget shortfall, forcing cuts in a variety of areas, including education. Read more...





Briefs

SARS virus identified, death count rises As the death toll from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome continues to rise, scientists in Canada and the United States have identified the genetic code of the virus suspected of causing the disease. Read more...