As the UC Board of Regents begins its meetings today at UC San Diego, 20 officers from the UCLA police department are taking a road trip down to San Diego to supplement the police force there. Read more...

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A University of California police officer stands outside of Covel Commons at the November 2009 Board of Regents meeting at UCLA. University of California police are preparing for the regents meeting that is taking place this week in San Diego.

The Rieber Fireside Lounge seemed more like a popular coffee house than a dorm lounge to Richard Sambasivam. Read more...

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Joe Smith drew a crowd to Rieber Hall Fireside Lounge on Thursday night for the Ignite event, which is designed to give students the chance to experience speeches.

In 1968, a fraternity on campus put up a banner explicitly listing those not invited to its "Viva Zapata" party: "no Negros, no Japs, no dogs." Read more...

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Professor Paul Von Blum was among the many UCLA faculty members active in the Civil Rights Movement.

Alexis Popkow's mother was an engineer in the 1970s, when the ratio of men to women engineers was nearly 20-to-one, Popkow said. Read more...

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Physics graduate student Alexis Popkow is one of the few female students in her department. The physics program has the highest male-to-female ratio at UCLA.