The UCLA campus and parts of Westwood were among the many areas that lost power in Los Angeles today after city utility workers accidentally erred in connecting wires and disconnected large swaths of the L.A. basin from power. About half the buildings on campus were affected in the blackout, including chunks of South Campus and […]
Author Archives: Natalie Banach
Robberies raise safety concerns
A recent spurt of robberies occurring near UCLA’s campus have university police and detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department working together to find two suspects. The two suspects identified by police do not appear to be working together, but both approach victims in a similar manner and both have handguns. In all the previous […]
Patient’s best friend
It all started with a few fish swimming along in a little tank, likely oblivious to the intravenous tubes and catheters surrounding them, but nevertheless gaining the attention of one UCLA nurse. Working at the UCLA Medical Center, K.C. Cole wasn’t impressed by the bright colors of the scales or the easy-going floating of the […]
An urban uprising remembered
It was a hot summer night 40 years ago when an urban uprising was just beginning to be quelled in South Central Los Angeles, a six-day event that led to 34 deaths, more than 1,000 injuries and over $40 million in property damage. Now referred to as the Watts Riots of 1965, the events that […]
A somber anniversary
Correction Appended He was only 7 years old but he remembers the headlines. And he remembers asking his parents what they would do now that there was no more news. It was August of 1945 and, up to that point, Michael Intriligator, now a UCLA professor of economics, said, “In my life as a little […]
Online Exclusive: UCLA Law graduate named L.A. deputy mayor
A graduate of the UCLA School of Law, a former union organizer and, most recently, staff director at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, one UCLA professor is continuing his mission as a community advocate with a new post at the mayor’s office. Larry Frank, who also practiced labor and criminal law for 10 years, became […]
[Online Exclusive] Bush nominates Roberts to Supreme Court
President Bush nominated 50-year old John Roberts Jr., a federal appellate judge, to the one vacant seat on the United States Supreme Court Tuesday evening, a decision which many think will tip the court just a little more to the right. In Bush’s nationally broadcast speech in which Roberts was officially nominated, the president’s confidence […]