The post was updated on Sept. 25 at 12:10 a.m. A UCLA student was found dead Monday morning after a fire in her Roebling Avenue apartment. Police responded to a call about 7 a.m. to a first-floor apartment at 10954 Roebling Ave. The unit belonged to several members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. LAPD spokesman […]
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New, returning residents to find renovations to Hill facilities
This summer, UCLA housing officials renovated the Hill to include a new fitness center in Carnesale Commons, improvements to Saxon Residential Suites and the reopened Rendezvous residential restaurant. UCLA Housing spent roughly $3 million for the new fitness center, $2 million on the Rendezvous restaurant and $25 million renovating Saxon Residential Suites, said Rebecca Kendall, […]
UC Regents seek to modify Statement of Principles Against Intolerance
The University of California Board of Regents announced Thursday a working group to modify the language of the Statement of Principles Against Intolerance. The group will be led by Regent Eddie Island and will include students, faculty, chancellors and regents. The announcement came after almost 20 speakers at the public comment section called for the […]
UCLA student assaulted with bottle at fraternity house
University police is searching for a man who hit a UCLA student with a bottle during a fight at a fraternity party late Saturday. A man entered Sigma Phi Epsilon’s house on Landfair Avenue about 11:30 p.m. with an unknown number of other people, all of whom were not invited to the party, according to […]
UCLA ranked second best public university, 23rd overall in the nation
UCLA was tied for the 23rd best college and ranked as the second best public university for the second year in a row in a ranking by the U.S. News & World Report released on Tuesday. USC and Carnegie Mellon University were tied at No. 23 with UCLA. Last year, UCLA was placed two slots […]
Extended-stay luxury hotel nestles way into Westwood Village
A new hotel on the southeast side of Westwood Village aimed at long-term guests will become the only hotel in the area to require a 30-night minimum stay once it opens in December. Indivest, the real estate developer that built the Center West building on Wilshire Boulevard, has been working on the project since 2008. […]
UCLA enrollment rate for 2015 remains at same level as previous year
The number of incoming first-year students at UCLA in 2015 – both resident and nonresident – will stay about the same, according to new enrollment data released by the University of California. This is in line with UC President Janet Napolitano’s announcement in March about capping nonresident enrollment at UCLA and UC Berkeley. At UC […]