Author Archives: Harold Lee

Within the next few years, 15-passenger vans, which are used to transport commuters and students to and from campus, will disappear from UCLA in accordance with a bill passed last September. According to studies conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the vans have high centers of gravity, making them more likely to roll […]

After three years of being spread out around campus, students and faculty in the physics and astronomy department finally have a place to call their own. Well, almost. There are still last-minute touches being made while students, faculty and staff are establishing themselves in the Physics and Astronomy Building, which started construction October 2001. Construction […]

Healthy UCLA students will have to hold off annual flu shots this year because of a national shortage of the flu vaccine and allow people in certain priority groups to receive them instead. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web site, Chiron Corporation, which produces the flu vaccine Fluvirin, will not be […]

Kristina D.Y. Louie, a UCLA researcher and post-doctoral fellow, died Sept. 3 of encephalitis at the West Los Angeles Kaiser Permanente. She was 29. Born Nov. 13, 1974 in New York City, Louie grew up in San Francisco. She studied at Colgate University in New York and Occidental College in Los Angeles as an undergraduate. […]

Fraternity Sigma Chi, which lost its university endorsement spring quarter 2004, has now been reinstated as an official UCLA fraternity after its petition to be reinstated was approved Sept. 24. According to a statement sent by Joan Brown, associate director for the Center for Student Programming, the fraternity was reinstated after submitting the petition Sept. […]

Norman P. Miller, UCLA’s first vice chancellor of student and campus affairs and coordinator of UCLA’s involvement in the 1984 Olympic Games, died of natural causes Sept. 7 in his Sherman Oaks home. He was 86. Born in Los Angeles on April, 19, 1918, Miller had a long-lasting relationship with UCLA. Miller received his bachelor’s […]