The crowd size, the chants cried and the campus presence seen during Wednesday’s student walkout were a throwback to a campus protest two years earlier, showing that some things don’t change with activism at UCLA. With an estimated turnout of over 1,000, the anti-war walkout paralleled the size of a March 2001 protest against anti-affirmative […]
Category Archives: Crime
Anti-war graffiti is on the rise
Arbi Pedrossian, a first-year psychology student, looked surprised as he passed by one of UCLA’s many construction sites Tuesday. There was a new addition to the site, added during the night. Scrawled across the green construction fence in white paint were the words, “If the government wants war, let’s give it to them ““ revolution!” […]
Thieves find Hill ripe for the picking
Missing: a large pineapple and two coconuts from last week’s themed dinner. (Five females from the residential halls needed piña coladas for their pre-party bash.) Gone: three distinctive, red dollies from the Covel front desk. (Decidedly the perfect equipment for hauling off more loot.) Stolen: potted plant after potted plant. (They wanted their own arboretum.) […]
Program could help STOP campus theft
With the same crimes occurring year after, students may wonder what UCPD is doing to alleviate the situation. The biggest crime problems on campus continue to be backpack, wallet, cell phone and laptop theft. The Director of Community Service for the university police Nancy Greenstein said these are typically crimes of opportunity. Wallets and cell […]
Introducing Ward: the best thing to hit UCLA basketball
He’s not exactly muscular, and he probably has no jump-shot to speak of, but Dwight Ward might be the key to UCLA turning its woeful season around. Ward, a UCPD officer, accompanied the team on the Georgetown trip and sat on the Bruin bench during the game because some overzealous message-board psycho in the D.C. […]
U.S. Consulate gives details of RD’s death
Gerald Lamb, a former Hedrick Hall resident director, was strangled to death with a T-shirt before his body was found in a Tijuana street dump, according a U.S. Consulate official. Lamb, who was reported missing to UCPD after he failed to attend an Office of Residential Life meeting at the beginning of the quarter, was […]
Crimewatch
Grand Theft A laptop valued at $1,200 was reported missing on Feb. 6 from Dykstra Hall. Later that day a backpack was stolen from the John Wooden Center worth $665. A staff member at Campbell Hall reported a computer monitor missing on Feb. 7. The monitor was valued at $500. A suspect created an Amazon.com account from […]