Katie Shepherd: EVP Office support for Prop. 13 reform misguided

“Simply put, California is broke.” The statement, pulled directly from an event page on Facebook put up by the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s External Vice President Office, offers a sweeping explanation for the University of California’s inflated tuition rates. This particular statement, as with many others in the event’s description, is flatly misleading. To address […]

UCLA offers higher-level ASL classes to accommodate demand

The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Seated in her American Sign Language class, Christina Pettus assuredly moved her fingers and hands to communicate, a task she has done since she was six months old. Only this time her translations felt […]

Eitan Arom: UCLA should not apply academic freedom policy on selective basis

James Enstrom has taken to carrying around a red folder full of documents. The former UCLA researcher has spent much of the last two years building a case against the people he believes forced him out of his position because of his scientific opinions. The saga that began with his termination from the Environmental Health […]

Editorial: USAC should put surplus funding requests on public view

Faced with a room full of more than 100 concerned students, the Undergraduate Students Association Council performed a startling about-face by reversing $78,500 in fund allocations it approved last week. In doing so, USAC demonstrated a serious inconsistency in the way it allocates its yearly surplus funds. The crux of the students’ complaints was that […]

UCLA Intramural Field to close for installation of artificial turf

The UCLA Intramural Field will close for four months starting this December, temporarily displacing some intramural and club sports along with open recreation for students. UCLA Recreation plans to replace the field’s grass with artificial turf to decrease the cost of upkeep, said Rich Mylin, associate director of facility and event operations. The turf will […]

Trial date set for former researcher James Enstrom’s lawsuit

A Riverside federal judge set a trial date for a former UCLA researcher’s lawsuit against the University of California Board of Regents in a Monday hearing. The case is set to go to trial on Nov. 18 of this year. James Enstrom, a former faculty researcher in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the […]