The Hill’s first Sustainival event encourages green living

Students at Sustainival, the Hill’s sustainability fair, use puffy paint to decorate burlap bags. The event, which attracted about 100 students, was a kick-off to the “Do it in the Dark” campaign, where Hill residents pledge to be more sustainable by turning off their lights when they can and unplugging unused chargers.

Graduate students call for changes to leave of absence policy

Two graduate student organizations released statements against recent changes to the leave of absence policy earlier this month, as part of continued graduate student response against the changes. Previously, graduate students had the option to take a leave of absence -– up to six quarters off for medical, family, military, emergency, research or academic purposes. […]

Independent reviews dispute Sander report on admissions

This article was updated on Jan. 28 at 3:20 p.m. The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Independent reviews, commissioned by a UCLA professor on behalf of a group of faculty, identified errors and discrepancies in a controversial report claiming […]