EVC Neuman optimistic about UCLA adapting to budget cuts

Executive Vice Chancellor Daniel Neuman predicts that budget cuts combined simultaneously with enrollment growth will continue to be the greatest challenge for the university in the short term. In an interview conducted Wednesday, Neuman addressed the issue of keeping the university competitive in light of this challenge. Neuman has been working most recently as the […]

Budget woes threaten ability of outreach groups to function

The Student Initiated Outreach Committee will face a cut of a third of its funding next year because of statewide budget cuts. Now the SIOC worries that Chancellor Albert Carnesale will use state cuts to justify cutting the University of California Office of the President’s contribution to the committee, leaving the organization with less than […]

Cleanup inspires, raises funds

The California Public Interest Research Group’s 19th annual Hunger Cleanup on Saturday dispatched over 50 student volunteers to homeless shelters, food banks, community gardens and community playgrounds in Los Angeles. Traditionally coordinated by CALPIRG, this year the event was co-sponsored by the Community Service Commission’s Hunger Project, the LA Water Project and Circle K. In […]

Student group sends aid for Afghan relief

Efforts to bring desperately needed humanitarian aid to Afghanistan have emerged on campus over the last two months, organized by the newly formed Afghan Student Association. Founded early this year, the Afghan Students Association is working with the nationwide Afghan Relief Organization and International Orphan Care to bring student donations of clothes, money and school […]

Speakers laud CALPIRG’s 30 years of activism

Over 250 students, staff and public interest advocates celebrated the California Public Interest Research Group’s 30-year anniversary on campus Thursday night. The event featured speakers Ariana Huffington and Assembly Majority Floor Leader Marco Firebaugh. Firebaugh has been a past supporter of CALPIRG’s Water Watch program, which cleans up local water bodies including the Los Angeles […]

Possible war alters some students’ travel plans

The prospect of war on Iraq starting before spring break is causing many students to cancel their spring break travel plans or prepare for complications they may encounter. Some students worry about travel inconveniences that could be caused by threats of terrorism or retaliation. Other students are concerned about anti-American sentiment in other countries and […]

Dancing the Weekend Away

More than two hundred students danced for 26 hours non-stop Saturday and Sunday to raise money for pediatric AIDS patients and to establish what organizers hope will become a campus community tradition. The second annual UCLA Dance Marathon, benefiting the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, raised $46,786.09 for the foundation. Dancers had to pay a […]