Author Archives: Daniel Schonhaut

Fifty-eight UCLA students currently enrolled in the School of Nursing are on track to graduate in 2010, constituting the first class of students to have completed the undergraduate nursing program since 1995.

The Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation pledged $1 million to the UCLA School of Dentistry this week for the permanent endowment of a chair in the division of oral biology and medicine.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block condemned violence by animal rights activists in a university statement last week after two vehicles were torched outside of a Los Angeles home on Nov. 20.
Students and Workers for the Liberation of UCLA Primates claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted a UCLA researcher.
“Through these reprehensible tactics and reckless behavior, anti”“animal research extremists demonstrate repeatedly that they are willing not only to risk the lives of those who spend their careers working to help others but also the lives of the unsuspecting general public, including children,” Block said in a UCLA statement.

Despite the early hour, the more than 100 or so people who gathered along a line at the North Athletic Field on Sunday morning appeared pumped up and energetic.

The Office of Residential Life’s ISMs Project, an event where students present their interpretations of specific “isms” that affect or interest them, will be held on Nov. 18 in the Northwest Campus Auditorium.

Measure R, which is predicted to raise $40 billion for public transit projects throughout Los Angeles County, is expected to pass by a narrow margin.

More than 300 kids dribbled their basketballs in a walk around campus Sunday morning as part of Dribble for the Cure, an event designed to help raise money for pediatric cancer research.