[BREAKING NEWS]: Police respond to 'unlawful assembly' around Landfair couch fire

Local law enforcement responded to what appeared to be a couch fire in the middle of the street on the 600 block of Landfair Avenue early Sunday morning. In the altercation, police officers fired guns with what witnesses believed to be rubber bullets, hit students with batons, and forced students into the nearest apartment buildings. […]

Research facility to replace part of Hershey Hall

Part of Mira Hershey Hall, UCLA’s first on-campus residence hall, is currently undergoing demolition to make way for the construction of the Life Sciences Replacement Building. The five-story research facility will offer wet labs, lab support and vivarium facilities for the departments of physiological science, ecology and evolutionary biology, and molecular, cellular and developmental biology. […]

School to adopt UC Berkeley’s “˜holistic’ approach

With its announced intent to move toward a more “holistic” model of undergraduate admissions, UCLA will adopt a process modeled after UC Berkeley’s, which has admitted a greater percentage of underrepresented minorities in recent years. UC Berkeley’s admissions process, which the school has termed “comprehensive review,” has been in place since before affirmative action was […]

Candidates in USAC election disqualified

Six candidates in the Undergraduate Students Association Council election were disqualified Monday after they failed to turn in their mandatory campaign expense reports. Jason Mizzell, Elections Board investigations chairman, said the disqualified candidates were internal vice president candidate Sheretta Thomas; general representative candidates Steve Sandoval and Elias Dabaie; Academic Affairs commissioner candidate Jennifer McGee; Campus […]