Author Archives: Noah Grand

A University of California internal audit claims to have resolved the majority of questionable national laboratory credit card transactions at the UC-run facility in Los Alamos. Out of $4.9 million in purchases reviewed, only $195,246 was found illegitimate under the UC’s contract to manage the lab for the U.S. Department of Energy. UC officials could […]

Student Regent Dexter Ligot-Gordon answered questions and tried to get a feel for UCLA students’ concerns at an open forum on campus yesterday. He discussed rising student fees, diversity, programs and environmental efforts in front of nearly 25 people, including members of the graduate and undergraduate student governments. One of the largest concerns brought up […]

Starting this year, the University of California will ask some applicants to verify personal information on their applications. Randomly selected students will need to show evidence of volunteer work, extracurricular activities or other personal information. The policies were implemented to reassure applicants that students are not lying in an increasingly competitive admissions process. “We’re doing […]

Harbor-UCLA and Olive View-UCLA Medical Centers will stay open, thanks to $150 million of additional federal funding over the next two years. The hospitals were threatened by a county health department deficit that has forced the closure of 16 hospitals in the past year. While the funding agreement completed on Tuesday will postpone hospital closures, […]

Most private schools use affirmative action to promote on-campus diversity, but that practice could be altered by an upcoming Supreme Court ruling. The ruling on the University of Michigan’s admissions policy will obviously affect public universities, but because almost all private universities receive federal funds the high court’s ruling would affect them as well. “Private […]

In the national debate over affirmative action, both sides are using the University of California to justify their arguments. Opponents say the UC has a higher minority enrollment now with its race-neutral admissions policies than it did in 1997, the last year affirmative action was used. But while under-represented minority enrollment has increased slightly, the […]

Two UCLA law professors say affirmative action is constitutional, contradicting President Bush’s statement last week that he considers the University of Michigan’s race-conscious admissions policies to be unconstitutional. Bush and other affirmative action opponents claim Michigan’s policy gives blacks and Latinos racial preferences in violation of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The amendment […]