A student’s cell phone was stolen out of his hand in the North Village Sunday morning, marking the second phone robbery reported to university police this month.
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UCLA Medical Center fined for patient safety violation
The California Department of Public Health fined the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center $50,000 for failing to ensure the health and safety of a patient, according to the health department statement released Thursday. The medical center was one of 10 hospitals to receive penalties and fines by the Department of Public Health on Thursday. In total, […]
UCLA football works on penalty challenges
Under the watchful eyes of a full officiating crew, UCLA football answered the call to fix its FBS Division I-worst 130 penalties in 2012. The Bruins, the only team at its level of competition to top 1,000 penalty yards, submitted a performance that coach Jim Mora deemed the best practice, in terms of physicality, of the program’s fall camp at Cal State San Bernardino.
UCLA School of Dentistry receives $5M to study saliva, detect stomach cancer
The UCLA School of Dentistry recently received $5 million to develop a tool to detect stomach cancer by studying saliva, according to a UCLA statement released on Tuesday. The National Institutes of Health will fund the project as part of a $160 million initiative to address the potential of salivary diagnostics, according to the press […]
USAC Recap – Aug. 13
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students.
President Obama signs bill lowering student loan interest rates
President Barack Obama signed into law today a bill that will lower student loan rates for this year. “The amount of debt that young people are coming out of school with is a huge burden on them; it’s a burden on their families,” Obama said in a White House statement. The bill, called the Bipartisan […]
Phone stolen from student’s hand in North Village
A thief snatched a student’s cell phone out of his hand while he was walking in the North Village Thursday afternoon. The student was walking east on Strathmore Avenue at about 1 p.m. when he passed two men standing on the corner near Midvale Avenue, according to a police bulletin released today. One of the […]