UCLA officials have known since late January about the link between a “superbug” outbreak and two patient deaths at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, officials said at a press conference outside the hospital Thursday. Patients who underwent procedures using devices called duodenoscopes were found to have symptoms of a superbug infection in mid-December. But […]
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Students relocate amid construction on De Neve residential buildings
Fourth-year mathematics student James Newton examined his newly renovated room in De Neve Birch last week and then wrote up an in-depth list of pros and cons about the renovations, which he posted on Facebook. Newton said he had a smooth moving process, but he noted a reduction in water pressure in the building, among […]
USAC recap – Feb. 17
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! Youtube Channel. Agenda Councilmembers unanimously approved the […]
USAC approves five-day election calendar
This article has been updated at 5:46 p.m. See the bottom of the article for more details. Spring’s undergraduate student government elections will span from Monday to Friday for the first time in the past eight years, after councilmembers approved an election calendar with several nontraditional dates Tuesday night. Undergraduate Students Association Council elections typically […]
Greek Week to fundraise for 2015 Special Olympics
Greek Week, the annual UCLA fraternity and sorority philanthropy event, is donating this year to the Special Olympics World Summer Games to be held in Los Angeles, with $2,700 already fundraised for the July event. Money raised during Greek Week will sponsor individual athletes participating in the games. Greek Week is a series of activities […]
Amended Election Code enforces spending caps, disclosure of funding sources
The undergraduate student government unanimously voted Tuesday to set spending caps for candidates, recognize the existence of slates and mandate the disclosure of campaign funding sources in the spring election.
Friends, family celebrate life of Sam Oliver at memorial service
Friends and family gathered at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center picnic area Sunday to celebrate the life and spirit of Sam Burton Oliver, a fourth-year economics student who died from an apparent suicide Dec. 12 in his Westwood apartment. The memorial service started with a short speech by Brian Pritchard, who was Oliver’s mentor and […]