Some UCLA students expect to front more of their own money to help organize this year’s JazzReggae Festival after the undergraduate student government took back $40,000 it originally allocated to the event. The festival, held every Memorial Day weekend at UCLA, attracts thousands of attendees and features an array of artists, along with food vendors from […]
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Panel opens discussion on Jewish community issues
Amid recent controversial events that have affected the Jewish community, prominent Jewish scholars and leaders convened at UCLA on Sunday to discuss how these issues would affect college students across the country. The panel members included Mark Yudof, former president of the University of California and UC Berkeley law professor, Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO […]
Passionate filmmaker and devoted friend, David Pregerson, dies at 23
David Pregerson, with his sense of humor and welcoming nature, had the ability to light up a room. “When you got to know him, you saw that he (had) a big heart,” said Elliot Schwartz, a UCLA alumnus and a close friend of Pregerson’s. “He made people feel like they had a place in his […]
Video explores reactions to bullying on UCLA campus
As she watched a man getting shoved to the ground, Caitlin Estudillo sprang from a bench near Powell Library and tried to stop what she perceived as a bullying incident unfolding in front of her.
Students launch club to gain support for biomedical ethics minor
During its first meeting, a new student club debated whether doctors have the right to conduct clinical trials on cancer patients, giving some patients a new drug and denying it to others. “It’s difficult because … (sometimes) you feel like clinical trials are wrong, but at the same time, they can potentially save millions of lives,” said […]
UCLA Foundation reaches settlement with former employee
A former UCLA employee reached an undisclosed settlement agreement with the UCLA Foundation Monday morning, the culmination of an eviction lawsuit brought forward by the university. In late October, the UCLA Foundation served Roselle Kipp with a lawsuit asking the court to evict Kipp from the boarding house that the UCLA Foundation owned, said Magda […]
Samuel Goetz, UCLA alumnus and Holocaust education advocate, dies at 85
Samuel Goetz, a UCLA alumnus and Holocaust survivor who paved the way for the creation of the first Holocaust studies chair at a public university in the United States, died on Oct. 24 of pancreatic cancer at his Los Angeles home. He was 85. Goetz’s friends said he embodied a rare blend of tenacity and […]