Individual charges of rape and forced oral sex were dismissed for two of the three men accused of raping a UCLA student in 2002, a judge ruled Monday. The third defendant will be retried on the same charges, the court also determined. Attorneys representing Chuwan Anthony, Jamar Dawson and DeShawn Stringer, along with prosecution lawyers, […]
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Ethnic graduation honors black Bruins
Leilani Downing came to UCLA in the winter of 1998, only months after the implementation of Proposition 209, which banned the state’s use of affirmative action in hiring and admissions policies. She belonged to the first class of students for which race was no longer considered in University of California admissions. That year, the number […]
Judicial Board to rule on campaign sanctions; may nullify elections
The elections results for the undergraduate student government officially came out three weeks ago, but a hearing Tuesday night ““ which will rule on a case recently filed against the council’s elections board ““ could overturn these results and set the council back several months. The possibility that the elections will be overturned is very […]
A closer look: Students can be cited for transferring graduation tickets
There is an area of the MyUCLA forums that has recently started to fill with posts of desperate students frantically attempting to acquire and dispose of graduation tickets as commencement soon approaches. One student says she needs to trade her English department graduation tickets for some tickets to the sociology ceremony. Another student has posted […]
Former USAC official offers no apologies
Though numerous points of contention exist between former undergraduate government presidential rivals Allende Palma/Saracho and Josh Lawson, there is one issue that they both agree on: Former Facilities commissioner Tutram Nguyen made a mistake when she posted offensive comments on her Web log this week. The log entry ““ which Nguyen has transferred to a […]
Slate’s future on council uncertain
The red shirts on Bruin Walk are unusually calm considering the storm that might hit their slate come around 10 p.m. today. With Lauryn Hill blasting from their stereo across the way from the campus Taco Bell on a breezy Wednesday afternoon, a handful of Students First! volunteers distributed fliers and encouraged students to vote […]
Budget cut protests hit statewide
A typically quiet street in Santa Monica filled with curious residents and drive-by horns as nearly 100 UCLA and California State University students protested the governor’s proposed budget cuts on Tuesday afternoon in front of Schatzi on Main, a restaurant owned by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Students were transported from campus to the Santa Monica restaurant […]