The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA's undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
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October 12, 12:53 am
USAC Recap – Oct. 11
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October 11, 1:54 am
Alumnus to embark on a 400-day trip that will take him across an ocean and through three countries
Chris Crane took a quarter off from schooling at UCLA to climb Mount Everest. He made it to within 5,000 feet of the peak. Read more...
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Recent UCLA Graduate, Chris Crane sits on a boatsling in the UCLA Boathouse at Marina Del Rey
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October 11, 1:45 am
Phones raise privacy fears
To conduct a small experiment, Tim Groeling turned off his iPhone's GPS feature during a business trip to Canada. Read more...
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Photo illustration by Blaine Ohigashi
News, Westwood
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October 11, 1:34 am
UCLA’s cityLAB presents two visions of a more urban, pedestrian-friendly Westwood
The general decline of Westwood Village "“ characterized by a loss of retail stores, a decline in moviegoers, a lack of parking and the issue of homelessness "“ compelled the Westside Urban Forum to engage UCLA's cityLAB in developing a future plan to restore the community on Monday. Read more...
Campus, News
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October 11, 1:24 am
Credit unions emerge as viable alternatives in light of banking fees
Recent consumer backlash against Bank of America for debit card fees has raised questions about the viability of alternative financial institutions, like credit unions. Read more...
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October 11, 1:15 am
UCLA researchers find gene therapy that can prevent cells from HIV infection
Patients with HIV/AIDS are one step closer to controlling their disease without a regimen of daily medications. Read more...
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October 10, 1:35 am
Techski: A simple experiment easily bypasses UCLA login protection levels
BY damien sutevski With only his last name, university ID number and birth date, I reset and changed a friend's password to gain access to his UCLA law school email account Thursday. I then told Eric Bollens, a software architect at the Office of Information Technology and a fifth-year computer science student, about this "exploit." Bollens relayed the information and within an hour, the IT security department had disabled the reset password feature for LawNET. While researching this column, I attended DEF CON, an annual hacker convention, in Las Vegas this summer. Read more...