This post was updated on Sept. 27 at 3:35 p.m. UCLA students watched as presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump exchanged verbal blows on national television. At viewing parties throughout campus and Westwood hosted by several campus organizations, students came together to see the next president lay out their future plans for the country. […]
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Class gives UCLA law students experience defending real clients
Andres Dae Keun Kwon’s most memorable moment as a law student was telling a man who had been in prison for 20 years that he would soon be free. President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of more than 200 individuals convicted of nonviolent crimes last month, including that of Darnell Crookshank. Kwon and other UCLA […]
Graduate students petition for parking access improvements
Megan Sjodt pre-dials her cell phone to 911 every night as she walks back to her parking spot in Parking Structure 4, about half a mile from her lab in the Molecular Sciences Building. Sjodt, a graduate student in biochemistry who often works at her lab past midnight, said that she and other graduate students […]
California Legislature approves $5M for gun violence research center
This post was updated June 19 at 2:30 p.m. The California Legislature agreed Thursday to allocate $5 million to create a University of California gun violence research center. Lawmakers passed the state budget, which included the center’s funding, on Wednesday. The UC has not determined where the center will be located, said UC spokesperson Claire […]
USAC continues search for tenured faculty adviser
The undergraduate student government is looking to hire a faculty adviser to assist the council. The USAC constitution allows the council to have a faculty representative, but USAC has not had one in more than 10 years, said Roy Champawat, director of the Associated Students UCLA Student Union. USAC Administrative Representative Debra Geller said they […]
MyUCLA introduces new inquiry feature to optimize counseling resources
Students can now ask departments and counselors a wide variety of questions, from finding out which classes are needed to graduate to payment inquiries, in a new feature on MyUCLA. The feature, which launched last week, was created so students could communicate more efficiently with administrators, said Arun Pasricha, director of Student Affairs Information Technology, […]
Professor named interim vice chancellor of Academic Personnel Office
UCLA officials appointed a professor as interim vice chancellor for the UCLA Academic Personnel Office last week. Michael Levine, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, will replace Carole Goldberg on July 1. Levine was a special assistant to the vice chancellor and gave Goldberg advice about faculty […]