UCLA professor pleads guilty to felony charges, placed on leave

UCLA classics Professor Andrew Dyck pleaded guilty to two felony counts on March 26 arising from a series of sexually explicit Internet exchanges with a 13-year-old girl from Simi Valley. Dyck pleaded guilty to one felony count of sending harmful matter over the Internet with the intent to seduce a minor and one felony count […]

[Online exclusive] UCLA professor pleads guilty to felony charges

UCLA Classics Professor Andrew Dyck pleaded guilty on Friday to two felony counts arising from a series of sexually explicit Internet exchanges with a 13-year-old girl from Simi Valley. Dyck pleaded guilty to one felony count of sending harmful matter over the Internet with the intent to seduce a minor, and one felony count of […]

[Online exclusive] Chancellor Carnesale weighs in on UCLA’s current issues

Chancellor Albert Carnesale said Friday that he had a special place in his heart for the Stanford men’s basketball team ““ that, like UCLA, the Palo Alto-based institution operates under the constraints of admitting athletes who must also excel as students. Thus, he said, seeing such a program find success is especially remarkable, and he […]

A closer look: Nation’s courts face urgent legal debate

Unprecedented ceremonies and court decisions have recently catapulted the gay marriage debate into the national spotlight, wedging it into the thick of steamrolling presidential campaigns and forcing the country to settle a legal debate that has no foreseeable end. Many of the nation’s courts will have their hands full for most of the immediate future […]