Two-thirds of college seniors graduated with debt in 2008, facing an average of $23,200 of debt that has grown at a rate of about 6 percent a year since 2004.
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New radiation treatment saves cancer-stricken rhinoceros
Leah Greer was running out of options.
Tent city at UCLA hosts protesters from across the state
Participants from college campuses around the state gathered Wednesday night for Crisis Fest, a tent city stationed outside Wilson Plaza that hosted students, alumni, faculty and workers planning to demonstrate outside today’s UC Board of Regents meeting.
UN ambassador gives climate change lecture at UCLA
As representatives prepare to descend on next month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the Danish ambassador to the United States came to UCLA to give a lecture on the topic Thursday.
Senate may increase Pell Grants
Melanie Simangan’s life at UCLA is much different from the life she lived at home with her parents.
UCLA professors and students excitedly observe the search for water on the moon
David Paige, a professor of planetary sciences, invited students and staff to his house early on Friday to watch a rocket and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, deliberately crash into the moon in an attempt to find evidence of water.
UCLA Samahang Pilipino helps out typhoon victims
As a child, Edith Bell watched her mother pack and ship care packages, known as balikbayan boxes, to her family in the Philippines.