This post was updated on Sept. 1 at 11:16 a.m. Police arrested UCLA cornerback Ishmael Adams for allegedly stealing an Uber driver’s cell phone outside of UCPD headquarters on campus early Sunday. Adams, a redshirt junior on the UCLA football team, was arrested about 3:30 a.m. near the Facilities Management building in central campus about […]
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LA City Council to vote on proposed 2024 Olympic bid
The Los Angeles City Council will vote Tuesday on authorizing Mayor Eric Garcetti and an independent committee tasked with organizing the city’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, an event that would make use of four UCLA venues and residence halls on the Hill. The city council was scheduled to vote on the bid […]
UCLA breaks ground on Wasserman football, Mo Ostin basketball centers
UCLA broke ground Thursday on two facilities that members of the athletic department vow will change the course of three prominent school sport programs: football and men’s and women’s basketball. Fundraising campaigns for the The Mo Ostin Basketball Center and the Wasserman Football Center began less than two years ago as part of the campus-wide […]
True freshman Josh Rosen named UCLA football starting QB
This post was updated on Sept. 2 at 11:20 p.m. UCLA football coach Jim Mora announced Aug. 26 that true freshman Josh Rosen will be the starting quarterback for the Bruins’ season opener Sept. 5 against Virginia. Seven months and hundreds of practices after Rosen first arrived on campus, Mora ended the suspense that dominated […]
Former UCLA employee arrested for embezzlement
This post was updated on Aug. 25 at 6:08 p.m. Police arrested a former UCLA personal assistant Thursday for embezzling about $80,000 from a bank account she was assigned to monitor for over a year. Casandra Carmen Jones, 51, was a hired as a doctor’s temporary personal assistant at the UCLA Department of Pathology and […]
Metro bus crashes into tree, leaves five with minor injuries
A Metro bus crashed into a tree early Saturday in Westwood after the bus driver fainted, sending the driver and four passengers to local hospitals to be treated for minor injuries. The bus swerved off the street at 2:10 a.m. on Wilshire Boulevard between Westholme and Thayer avenues, and crashed into a tree, said Los […]
Kevin Reed, vice chancellor for legal affairs, to leave UCLA
Kevin Reed, the vice chancellor for legal affairs, will be leaving UCLA Oct. 2 after the University of Oregon hired Reed to serve as the chief legal adviser under the title of vice president and general counsel, according to an email statement sent to faculty by Chancellor Gene Block. In the over seven years Reed […]