Author Archives: Alexa Vaughn

With graduation around the corner, many seniors are still figuring out exactly what they will do after they step out of their last class at UCLA. While some students line up postgraduation plans long before they receive their diploma, others are still scrambling to finalize plans with less than a month before the end of […]

California students have begun a series of meetings with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to discuss affordability at state colleges and universities in the midst of early campaigning for this fall’s gubernatorial election. In a meeting initiated by the governor, students from the University of California and California State University spoke with Schwarzenegger at his office in […]

Though a judge recently rejected a challenge to the legality of Proposition 71 ““ the 2004 act that gave embryonic stem cell research $3 billion in state funds ““ debate continues over how stem cells will be researched and where scientists will receive the funding to do so. Two taxpayer groups ““ the People’s Advocate […]

UCLA, which was again the most applied-to university in the nation this year, admitted 12,094 students out of a pool of 47,258 freshman applicants, according to data released Wednesday. The admitted students make up about 25 percent of the applicant pool, and officials said UCLA plans to enroll about 4,625. The University of California system […]

UCLA students may not see an immediate difference on their BAR accounts, but for the first time the UC Office of the President is imposing a policy requiring 25 percent of money from new student referendums go back to financial aid. A portion of state-issued undergraduate and graduate student fees has always gone back into […]

In an effort to enhance weapons security in the United States, the Energy Department announced plans Wednesday to relocate plutonium from seven national laboratories, including two run by the University of California, to one new site. The relocation plans are part of a larger program to replace the nation’s aging weapons, with a goal of […]

A recent study released by a group of UCLA researchers found that California sends a lower percentage of high school students to four-year universities than all but one other state, and attributed this in large part to a lack of adequate preparation programs. Researchers from the UC All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity and […]