Breaking news: Dynes recalls decision to pass on hockey, stick to academia

Robert Dynes, the newly appointed president-designate of the University of California and a lifelong physicist, would have at one time used his knowledge of Newton’s Laws of Motion to perfect his slap shot rather than to pursue academia. During a press conference immediately after the UC Board of Regents announced he would take over the […]

UCLA ends year with revised set of blueprints

There was a lot of construction happening at UCLA during the 2002-2003 academic year. But the sounds of jackhammers and bulldozers throughout campus only scratched the surface of a university that underwent several key changes in the span of 160 days. Government and UCLA The political year effectively kicked off with the November gubernatorial elections, […]

UCPD looks into possible hate crime

University police are investigating a possible hate crime that evidently took place over the Easter weekend at the UCLA Medical Center hospital. On Saturday afternoon, an unknown individual entered the hospital’s chapel and meditation center and poured what was marked as pork blood onto prayer mats used by Muslim patrons of the room. UCPD detectives […]

Family, friends, staff celebrate Rabuy’s life

Laughter outweighed tears Wednesday as students, faculty, administrators and family members remembered Cynthia Rabuy, who died last week in a traffic collision at the age of 23. Two hundred people packed the Collins Room at the James West Alumni Center, where they held a memorial for the highly-involved student leader and revered campus presence. Rabuy’s […]

Student group funding reflects USAC loyalties

The recent surfacing of an internal document outlining the undergraduate president’s personal views on student government have revealed a link between his self-listed student group allies and the changes in funding those groups received at the beginning of the year. David Dahle, president of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, listed in these documents the students […]