A nightmare budget scenario for the University of California loomed closer Tuesday afternoon when Gov. Jerry Brown announced he was ending talks with Republican legislators. Read more...
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March 31, 2:14 am
Public higher education schools brace for the worst
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March 31, 2:09 am
A record-high number of applicants for UCLA results in low admissions
After a record number of freshman applicants, UCLA accepted 25.3 percent for the 2011 academic year. Read more...
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March 31, 1:52 am
Campus groups offer disaster preparation classes
Disaster preparedness organizations in Los Angeles and at UCLA have seen increased interest following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Read more...
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March 31, 1:46 am
General Representative Emily Resnick to initiate two new campus programs
Resnick, a general representative for the Undergraduate Students Association Council, confirmed the date of the first farmers market, which will take place April 20 from 3-7 p.m. Read more...
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Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative Emily Resnick’s gym-traffic project, which will take photos of gym areas and link them to the UCLA Recreation website, will launch this quarter.
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March 31, 1:41 am
UCLA Health System to make reforms as a result of the federal health care bill
Health care reform is happening within the UCLA Health System, but it is not necessarily President Barack Obama's bill driving the reform, administrators say. In a presentation to the UC Board of Regents on March 17, John Stobo, the UC senior vice president for health sciences and services, emphasized that the UC must address spiraling health care costs regardless of the fate of the bill, which has been threatened with repeal by Republicans. "My feeling is that (the bill) is not going to be the major driver (of UC hospital reform)," Stobo said in an interview this week. Read more...
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March 30, 1:41 am
Nuclear meltdown in California’s two nuclear plants unlikely because of safeguards
In the wake of a partial meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, debate has emerged about whether California's nuclear reactors put the earthquake-prone state similarly at risk. California has two nuclear reactors in San Luis Obispo and near San Clemente that together produced 15.5 percent of the state's energy in 2009, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute. A request to extend the lifetime of the Diablo Canyon reactor by 20 years has been postponed because of the events in Japan. Both Sen. Read more...
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March 30, 1:22 am
Small UCLA reactor used by students shut down in 1984 because of potential safety hazards, declining use
More than a quarter of a century ago, in the northwest corner of Boelter Hall, there was a powerful device guarded by large concrete walls that were off-limits to most students and faculty.
From 1959 until 1984, UCLA had its very own nuclear reactor, which was housed in the engineering building and utilized by various South Campus departments for research and business. Read more...
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Thomas E. Hicks (right), engineering professor and then-chief supervisor of the UCLA reactor, and Ronald MacLain, his chief assistant, stand on top of the newly built reactor in December 1960. The nuclear reactor, which had the power of 100 toasters, was small and used mostly for research purposes.
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