Two men robbed a UCLA student at gunpoint early Thursday on Strathmore Drive, taking a cell phone and money before driving away, university police said. About 2:37 a.m. Thursday, the student was walking on Strathmore Drive near Levering Avenue when two men approached from behind and pushed the student to the ground, police said. When […]
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UCLA men’s basketball loses to No. 1 Kentucky 83-44
This post was updated on Dec. 20 at 9:30 p.m. CHICAGO — By the time UCLA scored its first points, the game was already out of reach. Facing No. 1 Kentucky (12-0) in the CBS Sports Classic in Chicago on Saturday, UCLA fell behind 24-0 through the first seven-and-a-half minutes before scoring its first basket. The […]
UCLA men’s basketball trails Kentucky 41-7 at halftime
CHICAGO — It didn’t take long for No. 1 Kentucky to take control of the game. Ninety-five seconds into game two of Saturday’s CBS Sports Classic in Chicago, UCLA found itself down 7-0, forcing coach Steve Alford to take a timeout. The pep talk didn’t fix much, as the Bruins headed into halftime trailing the […]
UCLA to hold faculty-wide vote on diversity requirement
This post was updated on Jan. 23 at 3:29 p.m. UCLA Academic Senate members will vote on the diversity requirement after dozens of professors petitioned to broaden the vote to include faculty of all the colleges in the university. A group of 59 professors and administrators are calling for an all-faculty vote to challenge the […]
Linebacker Eric Kendricks wins Lott IMPACT Trophy
After winning the Butkus Award last week, redshirt senior inside linebacker Eric Kendricks wasn’t done collecting hardware. Kendricks was awarded the Lott IMPACT Trophy Sunday night, becoming the second consecutive UCLA player to win after former outside linebacker Anthony Barr received the award last year. The criteria of the Lott IMPACT Trophy include not only […]
UCLA men’s soccer loses national title game on penalty kicks
From the start of the NCAA College Cup final on Sunday in Cary, N.C., the strategy of the lower-ranked and injury-riddled Virginia Cavaliers was clear: Do whatever’s possible to take the game to the precarious penalty kick stage. Virginia sat back deep in its own final third for the entire game, conceding nearly all the […]
UCLA student dies in Westwood apartment building in possible suicide
This post was updated on Dec. 13 at 5:39 p.m. A UCLA student died in his Westwood apartment early Saturday morning in what police are investigating as a possible suicide. Firefighters found the fourth-year economics student in a smoke-filled room when they responded to what was reported as a structure fire at 1:05 a.m. Saturday, […]