Even before the UC Board of Regents proposed an 8 percent fee increase, UCLA was considering ways to make the university more financially self-sufficient. Read more...

Lying to his master sergeant, a former cadet in UC Berkeley's Reserve Officers' Training Corps remembers when he described the white ribbon on his jacket, which was tied in a knot for gay marriage, as a symbol for peace. Read more...

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Members of ROTC practice from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. three days a week.

Ten days. Ten days to pack belongings into storage. To decide whether to sell the car. To say good-bye to family and friends.
To make funeral arrangements. Read more...

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Veteran and UCLA student Eryn Sanders was first deployed to Iraq in 2005.

It was midnight, and Christine Wang felt edgy. The then-third-year anthropology student worked the night shift at The Coffee Bean in Westwood. After locking the doors, Wang began the walk back to her apartment across from the cemetery on Veteran Avenue. Her discomfort heightened as she walked down the dark, empty street. Read more...

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Christine Wang, a UCLA alumna, describes herself as “sensitive.” She said ghosts have appeared to her since she was 3 years old.

When it comes to the paranormal, William Newman, UCLA professor of earth and space sciences, prescribes to a quote by his graduate school mentor and author Carl Sagan "“ "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Read more...