With construction on two of the three new residential plazas completed and the third well underway, this years’ second-years will be the first UCLA students to have three years of guaranteed university housing available to them. Last spring, second-year students already living on campus were notified that for the first time, they would be allowed […]
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Greek system changing with times
With Black Sunday permanently abolished, one fraternity on a two-year hiatus and another losing its house, some members of the Greek community are disappointed with where they see UCLA’s Greek system heading. But others, including the president of the Interfraternity Council, the fraternity system’s governing body, say this is all part of helping the Greek […]
[Online Exclusive]: Investigation of UCLA researcher for alleged insider trading continues
A prominent UCLA cancer researcher, reported in a Seattle Times article to have sold insider information about a potential new drug to Wall Street investors, is still under investigation by both a panel of UCLA faculty and the Securities and Exchange Commission, with no end in sight for either inquiry, officials said. Dr. Robert Figlin […]
Founder of ethnomusicology program dies
Mantle Hood, founder of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, died on July 31 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 87. In addition to founding the ethnomusicology program at UCLA, Hood also pioneered an idea he termed “bi-musicality,” meaning that ethnomusicologists should learn to play the music of the cultures they study. “This method, controversial […]
Researcher faces review
A prominent UCLA cancer researcher may face investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission after he was accused last week of selling confidential information about two potential new cancer drugs to a group of Wall Street investors. The accusation was part of a Seattle Times investigative report published on Aug. 7, which named Dr. Robert […]
Undie Run tradition faces growing pains
Hundreds of students will gather in Westwood on Wednesday night to participate in what is rapidly becoming a popular UCLA tradition ““ running through the streets in their skivvies. The Undie Run, as it is popularly called, happens on Wednesday night of finals week each quarter. Students congregate at the northern intersection of Landfair and […]
Volunteers provide special treatment
By the time the bus pulled up in Falmouth, Jamaica, each morning, the medical students, doctors and other practitioners could see a full day’s work waiting for them. Every day by 8 a.m., 80 to 100 Jamaican residents were already crowded onto the veranda of the medical clinic where 27 students and professionals from UCLA […]