A lawsuit filed against UCLA in 1996 was almost put to bed. But recent allegations of criminal activity involving stolen donated body parts at UCLA’s Willed Body Program have rekindled parts of the suit that were seemingly unresolved. The university was sued on behalf of families of almost 18,000 participants in the program in 1996, […]
Author Archives: Ari Bloomekatz
Frazier opts to represent himself
The man shot in an altercation with a university police officer Oct. 5 in Kerckhoff Hall decided last week to represent himself in the case set to go to trial within the next two months. Police say transient Willie Davis Frazier Jr., 52, was trespassing in the second floor Kerckhoff Hall study lounge when he […]
Families sue over cadaver sales
While university officials expressed regret for criminal allegations involving its Willed Body Program at a press conference Monday, relatives of those whose bodies were donated to the program filed a lawsuit against UCLA. UCLA’s attorney, Louis Marlin, said he expects additional lawsuits to be filed against UCLA because of the recent discovery that parts of […]
Fraternity, sorority offer kids college experience
Los Angeles youth got a sweet taste of college Saturday when a fraternity and sorority hosted “It’s All About the Kids” Day, an event complete with a campus tour, an amateur beatbox show and candy apples. Nearly 90 members of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity and the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority hosted over 50 students […]
Cadaver inquest continues
University police made a second arrest Sunday in an ongoing investigation of UCLA’s willed body program, the director of which was taken into custody Saturday for allegedly selling body parts from cadavers donated to the university. Ernest Nelson, 46, who is not a UCLA employee, was arrested in Rancho Cucamonga shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday […]
Remains may be student’s
The skeletal remains of what is likely a missing UCLA student were found Wednesday morning next to a crashed red pickup truck in Malibu Canyon. Michael Niemeyer, 22, only one course short of graduating last spring, was last seen driving the 1997 red Ford Ranger on his way home from UCLA to Redlands in mid-October. […]
Alumnus develops Westwood
UCLA alumnus and Westwood developer Jeff Katofsky remembers the only way he was allowed to stay up late as a kid. “When I was growing up, I had a bedtime like everyone else,” Katofsky said. “But if UCLA basketball was on, I could stay up and watch.” He added that he remembers watching Brad Holland […]