The majority of the independent candidates in this week’s undergraduate student government election are combining resources and campaigning as two-person teams in the absence of official slate participation. Of the five candidates running in the Undergraduate Students Association Council special election, only one transfer student representative candidate does not have a partnership with another student. […]
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Referendum would extend student fee funding sustainability projects
Students will vote on a referendum this week that would indefinitely extend a $4.80 quarterly student fee used to fund campus sustainability projects. Mandatory students fees for The Green Initiative Fund, or TGIF, have raised about $200,000 per year since it was created in 2008, according to the fund’s website. Over the years, the fund […]
Inventathon competition inspires development in healthcare problems
Glass walls covered with colorful graphs and business models divided the teams as the members typed furiously on their computers, developing their solutions to one of six proposed healthcare problems. Eighteen hours into the 24-hour event, participants scribbled on the walls with Expo markers as they refined their products, which addressed medical challenges such as […]
UC spends almost $4.5M in laboratory fire case
By Sam Hoff The University of California recently said it spent almost $4.5 million on legal fees to defend itself and a UCLA professor in lawsuits stemming from the death of a research assistant in a 2008 UCLA laboratory fire. Patrick Harran, the chemistry professor who ran the lab, reached a settlement in June accepting […]
University police releases sketch of burglary suspect
University police released a sketch Wednesday of a man wanted for entering a UCLA student apartment in September while the residents were asleep. The man was described as Asian, about 5-foot-6 with short black hair and in his mid-20s. He had a slim build and a dark complexion, and was seen wearing a black T-shirt […]
Rising costs, insufficient funds raise possibility of UC tuition bump
Up to $390 million in cost increases are expected for the University of California in the next fiscal year, potentially raising the possibility of a tuition increase. Under a multi-year funding agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown that began in 2013, the state will support annual funding increases of 4 to 5 percent to the University […]
Man breaks into two student apartments on Ophir Drive
University police have reported two break-ins at student apartments in Westwood, both which occurred early Saturday morning. According to a UCPD alert, a man entered an Ophir Drive apartment through its unlocked front door about 1:40 a.m. Saturday. A student in the apartment confronted the man, who then ran away, according to the alert. About […]