UCLA-USC rivalry week kicked off Sunday night with university officials and students taking steps to protect the Bruin Bear and the newly unveiled John Wooden statue. Read more...

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UCLA students stay out all night in front of the John Wooden statue outside Pauley Pavilion to ward of potential USC pranksters during the week leading up to the annual UCLA–USC football game.

With the annual rivalry football game between UCLA and USC less than one week away, about 830 UCLA and USC students, alumni, family and friends raced around the UCLA campus on Sunday morning to participate in the 5-kilometer race, "We Run the City." Read more...

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“We Run the City,” a 5K race between UCLA and USC students that was held for the first time this year, started out in Wilson Plaza Sunday morning. The rivalry run, which raises money for Special Olympics Southern California, will be held on both campuses alternatively until the 2015 Special Olympics.

Parents and friends in tow, children ran around South Campus on Saturday, making fossil casts, programming robots and eating liquid nitrogen ice cream. Read more...

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Children observe a model of the Orion constellation during the annual Exploring Your Universe! event held in South Campus on Saturday.