Author Archives: Jessica Chung

On Tuesday, as students on the Hill were preparing to go home for Thanksgiving and enjoy a few days of no class, the smell called the “Hedrick funk” got funkier than ever. A main line backup in Rieber Hall resulted in a sewage overflow that reached as far as Sproul Hall and Charles E. Young […]

While students and administrators celebrate the plans to erect graduate housing on Weyburn and Veteran, some neighbors to the project are a bit more wary. The director of the Los Angeles National Cemetery is worried about the changes the additional buildings will bring to the quiet neighborhood via increased foot traffic through the cemetery, specifically […]

The 15-minute waits for treadmills and the chipped, rusted weights familiar to students who visit the John Wooden Center will cease to exist as of March 2004. The groundbreaking ceremony marking the beginning of construction of the John Wooden Sports and Recreation Center’s West Addition took place Thursday morning. The West Addition will include a […]

Site work on Weyburn Terrace housing, the new apartments specifically designed to meet the needs of UCLA graduate students, is underway. While UCLA has eight buildings bordering the core campus to house undergraduate students, it has none within walking distance for graduate students. The new graduate houses were planned to remedy this issue. Although a […]

In most dorms, students either have to use phones or go into the hallways to talk to their floormates. Students in De Neve said they can talk to their neighbors through the walls. “When you go to the bathroom and open the medicine cabinet, you can practically have a normal conversation with the people next […]

The first floor of Sproul will be completely renovated during winter break, making more room for student government, Office of Residential Life and Housing Administration offices. The decision to remodel Sproul stemmed from plans to create more high rise residential halls. To make room for the new Rieber North dormitory, the Housing Administration Building will […]

Habitat for Humanity International returned to the UCLA campus last week when it became an officially recognized student organization. A chapter of the organization had been active on the UCLA campus previously, but became inactive a few years ago, according to new Habitat for Humanity president, Kevin Gerrity, a fourth-year history student. After working with […]