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By Derek Lipkin BRUIN SENIOR STAFF dlipkin@media.ucla.edu The free-speech rights of University of California employees may be called into question as the Supreme Court takes on a case involving the First Amendment and the workplace for government employees. Over the next several months, the Supreme Court will hear a case, brought by a Los Angeles […]

Student governments will have a little extra elbow room going into this academic year as the students’ association board of directors passed a motion to re-allocate space within Kerckhoff Hall. The board met Sept. 30 for its monthly meeting. A motion made by undergraduate representative Gustavo DeHaro was passed to re-allocate Kerckhoff 313, formerly occupied […]

The phone rings and it is a UCLA student on the line. He is calling an alumnus to ask for donations to the university. Regardless of how much the alumnus decides to donate, he might never know the student he is speaking with is not employed by the university for which he raises funds. UCLA […]

Judy Olian, dean of the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University, was named the new dean for the UCLA Anderson School of Management on Thursday by Chancellor Albert Carnesale. The appointment will be effective Jan. 1, 2006, pending approval from the University of California Board of Regents, according to a university statement released […]

With today’s announcement by Chancellor Albert Carnesale that he will be stepping down from his position in June 2006, the UC Board of Regents and UC President Robert Dynes will begin the process to decide who will succeed him. President Dynes will begin a national search for a new chancellor as soon as possible, according […]

Some of the state’s most powerful politicians, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, met at the UCLA Neuroscience Research Building on Aug. 23 to announce their bipartisan support of a federal bill that would ban reproductive human cloning without harming embryonic stem cell research. Schwarzenegger said Californians showed their […]

Dr. William F. Friedman, former executive chairman of the pediatrics department and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the David Geffen School of Medicine, died on Aug. 25 in his home. He was 69. Friedman came to UCLA in 1979 after spending most of the 1970s at Johns Hopkins University, where he edited the […]