Category Archives: Crime

During their first year as roommates at UCLA, Cory Fischer and Joel Abramovitz had a dream: to get students stressed by politics and the anxieties of academic competition to stop taking themselves so seriously. Out from the haze of their early undergraduate dream emerged The Flying Squirrel, a twisted comedy paper satirizing campus and international […]

Burglary A laptop worth $900 was removed from a residence on the 800 block of Hilgard Avenue on March 21. A window at the Engineering 1 construction site was forced open and a radio and shop vacuum worth $200 were removed on April 2. Grand theft Copper piping worth $1,000 was removed from the Engineering […]

In response to concerns from the administration, Undergraduate Students Association Council Facilities Commissioner PC Zai has proposed moving the starting location of the Undie Run to the Strathmore Drive tunnel. The Undie Run, which currently starts at the northern intersection of Gayley and Landfair avenues, is a UCLA tradition in which students show up in […]

Burglary from motor vehicle Someone smashed a window of and removed a GPS system and CDs worth $1,300 from a vehicle parked in a garage on the 400 block of Landfair Avenue on March 6. Someone smashed the driver’s side window of a car parked on the 10000 block of Landfair Avenue and removed a […]

The former director of UCLA’s Willed Body Program and his associate were charged with felony and arrested Wednesday for allegedly selling body parts from cadavers that had been donated to the university for research. Henry Reid, who was the director of the program from May 1997 to March 2004, is accused of giving body parts […]

An unofficial student committee met Thursday to outline potential changes to the Undie Run route in order to save the tradition while addressing safety and financial concerns raised by UCLA and the city of Los Angeles. For the last several years, Bruins have relieved their academic stress by turning out in their underwear at midnight […]

Burglary A doorknob was broken and a computer, nerve-fiber analyzer and lamp worth $75,800 were removed from the Jules Stein Eye Institute between Feb. 22 and 23. A laptop and bag worth $2,000 were removed from the Center for Health Sciences on Feb. 23. Battery Someone struck and pushed another person near the Delta Terrace […]