Author Archives: Andrew Edwards

UCLA students may wonder why they should care about who the next UC president will be. The top administrator in the country’s most prestigious public university system has an office over 400 miles north of UCLA and works mostly with regents, administrators, faculty, politicians and donors ““ not students. Furthermore, students do not have much […]

Running a large campus like UCLA is never an easy task, but the job is about to get tougher ““ incoming administrators can expect to face both a growing workload and dwindling resources. Money has been tight at UCLA before ““ the early 1990s are a recent example ““ but anticipated rapid enrollment growth sets […]

Hollywood blue bloods mixed with UCLA medicine in Beverly Hills on Thursday night at an awards benefit for the largest hospital in the Middle East. Gerald Levey, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was honored as the first-ever recipient of the Sheba Medical Visionary Award. Film director William Friedkin received the […]

Chancellor Albert Carnesale said he is not seeking the University of California’s presidency, but would not go as far as saying he would reject the position if he were asked to lead the UC system. “I am very happy at UCLA and would welcome the opportunity to remain at UCLA, and indeed that would be […]

Even in the land of the free, civil disobedience can carry a heavy price. Seth Cohen, a fourth-year political science student, knows this all too well after trespassing on a military base during a protest. Convicted of a federal misdemeanor, Cohen received 12 months probation, plus a $500 fine and community service. Last November, Cohen […]

The search for a successor to outgoing University of California President Richard Atkinson may not only yield a new president ““ it may also make history. Every UC president in the past has been a white male, but there is a greater chance now than in earlier years for a woman or a underrepresented person […]

Though management at the Los Alamos National Laboratory may not have engaged in an actual cover-up attempt, lab officials did not act correctly amid allegations of theft and missing equipment, according to a Department of Energy report released Thursday. The report, conducted by the office of DOE Inspector General Gregory Friedman, did not conclude if […]