Hispanic students now have the second highest college enrollment rate, after Asian students, according to data released last week from the U.S. Census Bureau. Data from 2012 shows that about 48 percent of recent Hispanic high school graduates that were not enrolled as graduate or vocational school students were enrolled incollege at the undergraduate level, […]
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USAC plans to promote SOOF funding to student groups
Members of the undergraduate student government plan on educating student groups about the funding available to them by launching a campaign that will be spearheaded by the Internal Vice President’s office.The purpose of the campaign is to promote the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s typically underused funding sources throughout the year, said Avi Oved, USAC internal […]
USAC Recap — Sept. 3
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students.
Influential UCLA professor and producer William Froug dies at 91
William Froug, an Emmy award-winning writer-producer and a professor emeritus who reshaped the screenwriting program at UCLA, died Aug. 25 of natural causes. He was 91. Froug’s family and close friends knew him as a humorous man with a booming personality who had a passion for writing and teaching at UCLA. He was proud to […]
Professor advises Washington state in regulation of marijuana
Mark Kleiman’s summer engrossed in Washington’s marijuana policies earned him a new nickname – the Pot Czar. “He hates being called that,” Kleiman’s colleague Beau Kilmer said with a laugh. Kleiman, a public policy professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, recently returned to UCLA after advising the state of Washington on how […]
UCLA professor to stand trial for fatal lab fire
A Los Angeles Countyjudge recently ordered UCLA chemistry professor Patrick Harran to stand trial to face felony charges in connection with the death of a UCLA researcher in a 2008 laboratory fire.
USAC members plan to launch campaign against sexual assault
Members of the undergraduate student government plan to launch a campaign to educate students about sexual assault and are asking for the support of UCLA administrators. The campaign, called 7,000 in Solidarity, is set to include both outreach to students and research about sexual assault at UCLA. As part of the campaign, students will be […]