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Author Archives: Melinda Dudley
[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. […]
Youth now subscribes to evolved news media
Rumor has it that the journalism industry is going straight down the toilet. If that were true, it wouldn’t bode very well for my future, given that I have spent my college career at UCLA working 50- and 60-hour weeks at the Daily Bruin instead of cultivating the perfect grade point average and sucking up […]
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 […]
GSA scrambles for votes
Graduate students campaigning for a referendum on their ballot are frantically increasing their efforts to get out the vote after learning that a UC policy announced just a week ago requires double the voter turnout they thought they needed for its passage. At least 20 percent of graduate and professional students will have to vote […]