Author Archives: Julia Erlandson

Last summer, Ashley Hernandez was excited to sign up for a travel-study program in Spain.

University of California President Robert Dynes announced he will step down in June 2008, capping a nearly five-year tenure that has been partially marked by controversy and scandal.

Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, which was placed under the control of a UCLA-affiliated hospital last year in an attempt to improve its quality of care, failed a final federal inspection and will close its doors within the next two weeks, county officials announced last week.

The University of California has introduced new personal statement prompts aimed at giving admissions officers a more complete view of applicants and their backgrounds, as opposed to simply their grades and test scores.

The U.S. Department of Energy proposed fining the University of California $3 million due to “management deficiencies” that resulted in a security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory last year.

During the school year, it is not uncommon to see crowds of students pouring out of the John Wooden Center when it closes at 12:45 a.m.
But during the summer, the gym’s night owls may be out of luck.

Nine hours before clocks in the United States indicated it was the Fourth of July, a group of University of California students in Sweden fired up their barbecue to begin celebrating the holiday.