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Students garner support to give campaigns push for midterm election

Francisco Castaneda’s goal for Thursday was just getting one person to pledge support for Ben Allen, a candidate for state Senate. No one picked up Castaneda’s first phone call, so he left a voicemail. There were about 17,000 more calls to make for the campaign. “Sometimes, you don’t even get one ‘yes,’” said Castaneda, a […]

President Barack Obama’s visit to cause several road closures

President Barack Obama’s visit to West Los Angeles this week will cause several road closures near UCLA, including Wilshire Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue, according to an L.A. Police Department alert. Obama is traveling to the area to hold an event at Cross Campus, a Santa Monica facility for start-up businesses, and to attend a Democratic […]

Former USAC officer pleads no contest to sexual battery, other charges

Former undergraduate student government officer Omar Arce pleaded no contest to seven counts of sexual battery, one count of false imprisonment and four counts of battery at a court appearance Tuesday morning. Arce, who was the Undergraduate Students Association Council community service commissioner last school year, was taken into custody after the hearing and is […]

UCLA to appoint diversity specialists from various campus departments

UCLA plans to appoint about 20 officers in various divisions and schools on campus to advise administrators on diversity issues and assist a new vice chancellor who will focus on diversity. The university has also hired two discrimination prevention officers, who started working at UCLA in recent weeks and will serve under the vice chancellor. […]

Over past year, 28 peepings reported near Westwood apartments

Marie Scampini glanced across the courtyard of her Veteran Avenue apartment building into the parking lot next door, where a man acting suspiciously caught her eye. It was 5 a.m. on a February morning, and the man peered intently into the windows of the apartment building next door, wobbling back and forth as if he […]

Utah backup quarterback catches UCLA off guard, leads Utes to victory

PASADENA — Backup quarterbacks generally aren’t popular guys. Their entrances onto the football field typically indicate either controversy or injury at the game’s most important position. Simply put, most teams would like to keep their backup signal caller on the sideline – the UCLA defense would like it that way too. Through five games, the […]