Author Archives: Melinda Dudley

UCLA students’ high cost of living is not only reflected in the price of rent, but in many of their local purchases ““ from gas to groceries to morning lattes. Los Angeles ties with Chicago as the second most expensive city in the U.S., outranked only by New York, according to the 2005 Economist Intelligence […]

Wood splintered, screws flew and columns sheared off from their bases when a series of earthquakes shook the UCLA campus last week. Scale models of college dormitories were put to the seismic test in an earthquake simulator when seven teams from California universities competed in the seismic-design challenge Friday during the 2006 Pacific Southwest Regional […]

While the UCLA community is gearing up for the NCAA Championship tonight, police are preparing to be out in force in hopes of quelling the types of illegal behavior that erupted into riots after the UCLA men’s basketball team won its last title in 1995. The Los Angeles Police Department has advised the university that […]

When UCLA’s new chancellor is hired in the coming weeks, the university may be gaining more than one new employee. The University of California and many other higher education institutions often offer positions for the spouses or partners of academics being recruited for high-level administrative positions. Of the UC’s 10 campuses, three of the chancellors […]

The debut of the revised Graduate Record Examinations General Test, originally slated for Oct. 2006, will be delayed one year, the Educational Testing Service announced Wednesday. An estimated half million students take the GRE each year, and the General Test is required for entry to nearly all graduate-level programs of study. ETS’s GRE Board believes […]

A Web site purporting to expose “UCLA’s radical professors” and offering students cash payouts in return for information about their classes was thrust into the national spotlight Wednesday after a barrage of media coverage. The site, uclaprofs.com, was launched just last month by the Bruin Alumni Association, a non-profit organization unrelated to the UCLA Alumni […]

For the first time since a recent outbreak of criticism regarding the University of California’s reporting of its top executives’ compensation, UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale sat down with the Daily Bruin to share his opinions on the issue as well as other university matters. A Nov. 13 article in the San Francisco Chronicle alleged that […]