The University of California Board of Regents appointed a new student regent for the 2017-2018 school year, discussed state funding for the UC and heard about UCLA’s response to the June 1 murder-suicide on campus from Chancellor Gene Block. Board of Regents The board officially appointed Paul Monge, a UC Berkeley law student and UC […]
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UC Regents recap – July 19
The University of California Regents discussed housing projects and construction for several UC campuses on the first day of their bimonthly board meeting at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay campus. Committee on Compliance and Audit The committee unanimously approved the Ethics and Compliance Program plan, which oversees compliance of systemwide policy. Sheryl Vacca, chief […]
UCPD investigating series of laptop burglaries from campus buildings
University police are seeking a man who has been stealing laptops from campus buildings since as early as March 2015. Surveillance video showed the man entering UCLA office buildings at least four times, according to a UCPD alert. The most recent burglary occurred in June. Police described the man as white or Hispanic, about 5 […]
LA City Council adds affordable housing ordinance to November ballot
The Los Angeles City Council voted June 21 to add an ordinance to the November ballot that would increase the number of affordable units in future housing development projects. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, a group backing the Build Better LA initiative, submitted the measure in February to the city clerk. If the […]
Man reported peeping into student’s North Village apartment
University police are searching for a man who was seen peeping into a UCLA student’s North Village apartment Tuesday morning. The student said a man looked into her apartment’s bedroom window on Roebling Avenue at 1:30 a.m., according to a UCPD alert. The student screamed and the man left on a north walkway and down […]
Westwood Neighborhood Council members announced
Westwood voters elected four new council members and 15 incumbents to the Westwood Neighborhood Council June 5. The city clerk certified the council members Friday, including newcomers Trent Jolly, a rental residential group director, Philip Gabriel, a business group director, Caroline Conway, an educational community director and Chantelle Eastman, an at large director. The new […]
Campus shooter identified as former UCLA doctoral student
A former doctoral student has been identified as the man who killed a UCLA professor on campus Wednesday. Mainak Sarkar, a 38-year-old man who graduated from UCLA in 2013, drove from his home in Minnesota to Los Angeles to kill his former research adviser William Klug, police said. Sarkar killed Klug, who was an associate […]