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Cinthia Flores, UCLA alumna and second-year law student at UC Irvine, was formally appointed as the 2013-2014 student regent today at the bimonthly UC Board of Regents meeting.
Beginning with today’s meeting, Flores immediately assumes the position of student regent-designate, a non-voting seat on the board, and will become the student regent the following year.
About 30 UC students and staff members “”mdash; some dressed in zombie attire “”mdash; briefly interrupted the bimonthly UC Board of Regents meeting this morning to protest tuition increases for professional schools, the possibility of a midyear tuition increase and what they called “privatization of the university.”
After expressing grievances during the meeting’s public comment period, students waved homemade signs, some chanting, “This is not a crisis of funding; this is a crisis of priority.”
UC San Francisco police issued a dispersal order after Regent Chair Sherry Lansing repeatedly asked the protesters to leave. The protesters complied, and no arrests were made.
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students.
The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was given a nod of approval in the U.S. News & World Report annual ranking.
The UCLA Medical Center was named the best hospital in California and the fifth best hospital in the country when the list was released on July 16.
Following the trend of many NFL teams, coach Jim Mora is uprooting the Bruin football team from the UCLA campus for their first practices of the preseason.
Intellectual and social tensions, along with a touch of wooden acting, rise to the surface of this film, in which a flailing playwright tries to recapture his joie de vivre, only to find himself taken captive by an unstable neighbor in a hostage crisis.
Whether fans know him for the recent announcement about his sexuality or for his feature in the Kanye West and Jay-Z album “Watch the Throne,” Frank Ocean has proven with his debut album “Channel Orange” that his talent validates the blogosphere buzz surrounding his name.
