The UCLA football team has been selected to play in the Foster Farms Bowl against Nebraska on Dec. 26 in Santa Clara, bowl officials announced Sunday afternoon. The game will be played at Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, and will begin at 6:15 p.m. on ESPN. The bowl appearance is the fourth […]
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UCLA women’s volleyball breezes through first round of NCAA Tournament
The UCLA women’s volleyball team glided through the first round of the NCAA Tournament with a straight-set win over the Lipscomb Bisons on Friday. The match was pretty typical for the No. 14 Bruins. The team continued to be successful with several hitters, as all three starting outside hitters had double-digit kills. The only anomalous […]
Fire breaks out on Midvale Avenue following motorcycle collision
A motorcycle caught fire after it collided with a car in the North Village Thursday afternoon. Firefighters received a call at 3:48 p.m. about a collision between a motorcycle and a car on Midvale Avenue near Ophir Drive, in which the motorcycle caught on fire, said Margaret Stewart, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson. She […]
UC extends application deadline for transfer students to Jan. 4
Transfer students applying to University of California campuses for fall 2016 will have an extra month to submit their applications, the University announced Wednesday. The new deadline for transfer applications is Jan. 4, 2016, the University said. The original deadline was Monday, Nov. 30. The University extended the deadline in an effort to increase California […]
UCPD looking for man accused of choking woman in parking lot
University police are searching for a man who choked a woman by the neck in a UCLA parking lot Sunday morning. The woman reported the man approached her about 9 a.m. Sunday in Parking Structure 32 on Veteran and Kinross Avenues and choked her, according to a UCPD alert. The man then fled by foot […]
UCLA programs respond to rapid growth in computer science field
Increasing demand for coding skills has prompted academic departments to provide more opportunities for students to practice computational thinking. The interest in programming skills has grown rapidly in both UCLA classes and career fields, said Robert Gould, undergraduate vice chair of the statistics department. “The need to have people who can work in data has […]
When a UCLA bonfire starts to burn, community ignites Beat ‘SC spirit
Event planners raced past Chuck Goolley as he stood at the base of a 30-foot wood tower, patiently waiting for them to set the wood palettes ablaze. Goolley, a 1966 alumnus, stared in familiar anticipation for the start of the Beat ’SC bonfire and rally, a tradition he has attended since its inception in 1995. […]