June 18: Citing safety reasons, the university begins cutting
down 50 old Eucalyptus trees around campus.
June 25: Reduced registration fees and summer financial aid
availability for the first time results in a 20 percent increase in
summer enrollment overall.
July 2: The university begins the first phase of construction on
the Men’s Gymnasium and the Chilled Water Line Extension
Project.
July 19: The UC Board of Regents passes by a 14-3 vote, the dual
admissions plan. It will go into effect fall 2003.
July 26: Gov. Gray Davis signs the state budget, which included
a 5 percent increase in funds to the University of California.
July: Haines Hall reopens after two-and-a-half years of seismic
renovations.
Aug. 10: The UCLA School of Medicine holds a ceremony to
celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Aug. 13: About 150 protesters return to Pershing Square in
downtown Los Angeles to commemorate last year’s Democratic
National Convention demonstrations.
Aug. 15: About 30 Medical Center employees protest the
hospital’s understaffing.
Aug. 23: Madison’s Neighborhood Bar and Grill shuts down for 10
days for serving clients from a secondary bar without a
license.
Aug. 24: The United States Olympic Committee visits UCLA during
its nationwide search for a host city for the 2012 Games.
Sept. 9: A 4.2 earthquake hits Los Angeles, damaging at least
one apartment building in Westwood.
Sept. 11: The nation is stunned by terrorist attacks to the
Pentagon and the World Trade Center.