The accolades keep rolling in for No. 8 UCLA gymnastics. Three Bruin gymnasts received All-America honors Friday, per a press release from the National Association of College Gymnastics Coaches, marking the 25th straight year UCLA gymnastics has produced multiple All-Americans. Senior Danusia Francis and redshirt senior Sadiqua Bynum were first-team selections on balance beam and […]
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Water main break to cause temporary water reduction in North Village
Water service to apartments in the North Village and some buildings on campus will be reduced following a water main break Tuesday afternoon. A crew is currently fixing a 12-inch pipe that burst underneath Veteran Avenue and Strathmore Drive, said Kim Hughes, spokesperson for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. She said she […]
UCLA Center for Policing Equity to relocate to New York
UCLA’s research center that works with police departments to reduce racial profiling and other issues will relocate to New York following an endowment of $2.5 million. UCLA psychology professor Phillip Atiba Goff, who helped start the center in 2007, will also move to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York to occupy […]
Steve Alford announces restructured contract set to end in 2020
Despite recent uproar calling for the firing of Steve Alford, it appears the UCLA men’s basketball coach will return for a fourth season in Westwood. In an email message addressed to “UCLA Family, Friends, Alumni and Supporters” sent Sunday evening, Alford wrote that he decided to restructure his own contract, removing a one-year extension that […]
Fire reported in Perloff Hall
Students and faculty evacuated Perloff Hall Thursday afternoon after a fire broke out in the building. UCLA Fire Marshal Dana Johnson said a machine overheated in the lower shop causing filters in the building’s ventilation system to catch fire. Firemen put out the fire in about 30 minutes. No further information was immediately available. Contributing […]
UC Regents release revised Statement of Principles Against Intolerance
The University of California working group publicly released its report and revised language of the Statement of Principles Against Intolerance in the University Board of Regents’ March meeting agenda. A clause explicitly condemning anti-Semitism is included in the revised statement after a months-long debate over academic freedom and addressing discrimination against Jewish students. The regents […]
Witnesses testify about UCLA student’s death at preliminary hearing
Alberto Medina kept glancing over his shoulder at the parents of the UCLA student he is accused of murdering while listening to the student’s friends testify what happened the morning she died. He then stood up and told Eric Marquez, who is also accused of her murder, to look at her crying parents. On the […]