A UCLA student called police early Wednesday morning after she saw a man looking through the door of her second-floor balcony on Hilgard Avenue. According to a university police statement, the student heard a noise on her balcony about 3 a.m. and walked to the door to see what it was. When she approached the […]
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LADOT installs bicycle corral on Broxton Avenue
The curbside of Broxton Avenue has a new accessory – a bike corral installed earlier this month to make bicycle parking easier for workers and customers in Westwood Village. The bicycle corral, added by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, is an on-street bicycle parking facility that can accommodate more bicycles than a typical sidewalk […]
Chancellor Block criticizes campus climate-related incidents
This article was updated at 1:25 a.m. on Feb 25. Chancellor Gene Block sent a campuswide email Tuesday criticizing the recent posting of offensive fliers about Students for Justice in Palestine and the questioning of a student’s qualifications based on her Jewish identity. Block expressed concern in the statement about posters found Sunday around UCLA […]
Lawmaker calls for congressional investigation into superbug outbreak
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) called Monday for Congress to investigate sterilization problems with a widely used medical scope linked to the superbug outbreak at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. In a letter to members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Lieu, who represents the congressional district that includes Westwood and UCLA, […]
Students celebrate Chinese New Year traditions at LA festival
Seeing colorful dragons dancing on the street and families cheering loudly in the crowds, Terry Vo said she felt a sense of nostalgia for her childhood celebrations of the Lunar New Year. On Saturday, the first-year chemical engineering student decided to go to the Chinese New Year Festival with DiverseCity Tours, an Undergraduate Students Association […]
UCLA to lead black studies consortium across UC
Researchers in black studies from southern University of California campuses will soon bring together their research on humanities-based topics in a UCLA-led program. Robin Kelley, a UCLA history professor and director of the newly formed Consortium for Black Studies in California, said the campuses will put on programs as part of the project and share […]
Napolitano postpones proposed tuition increase until fall quarter
The University of California will not raise tuition for the upcoming summer sessions, UC President Janet Napolitano announced in her lecture at USC Wednesday. “Because (budget) discussions are still ongoing, and because the Legislature is still at work putting together the state budget, I am announcing here today that UC will not implement a previously […]