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By Kim Nguyen Most UC students and faculty scatter during the summer, but more than 50 of them gathered under the punishing August sun Thursday to protest the University of California Regents’ decision to end affirmative action in admissions and hiring. Protesters circled Regent Tirso Del Junco’s Sunset Boulevard medical office in response to a […]

Hospital scrutinized for alleged negligence By Gil Hopenstandand Donna WongSummer Bruin Staff The first day of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital’s (NPH) accreditation survey began with stories alleging negligence and impropriety. On Wednesday, family members of several hospital patients, many of whom are no longer alive, spoke before the board which regulated the institution’s operating license. […]

By Patrick KerkstraSummer Bruin Staff SAN FRANCISCO – They chanted. They marched. They cried and were arrested. But in the end, the sudden flare of student and community activism was not enough to reverse the decision of the governor-appointed UC Regents, who chose to end the university’s 30-year-old affirmative action policies. For two days, students […]

Regents end UC affirmative action policies By Phillip CarterSummer Bruin Staff SAN FRANCISCO – After a 12-hour meeting in which they were bullied by politicians, besieged by protesters, and evacuated by a bomb threat and a civil disturbance, the University of California Regents voted to stop admitting students, hiring professors, and awarding contracts on the […]

By Gil Hopenstandand Patrick KerkstraSummer Bruin Staff Emilia Galan’s mother-in-law owes a great deal to County-USC hospital. The uninsured North Hollywood resident underwent surgery there Wednesday ­ a procedure which she could not have afforded at another hospital. "It’s hard to think what I would do," said Galan of where her ill relative would receive […]

By Patrick KerkstraSummer Bruin Staff In a decision that promises major consequences for Los Angeles’ artistic and educational communities, UCLA’s second-highest ranking official, Executive Vice Chancellor Andrea Rich, announced her resignation last week. On November 1, Rich will assume the top position at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), as the unanimous selection […]

By Phillip CarterSummer Bruin Staff The search process for a new University of California president imploded last week, as premature publicity forced the UC Regents’ pick, Ohio State University president E. Gordon Gee, to turn down the job. Gee’s name surfaced in media reports as the regents’ choice last week, after Regent Roy Brophy announced […]