Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the so-called season of giving, and groups across campus have stepped up to collect for students and local homeless people in need. The giving begins with the annual UCLA Food Drive, which started last week and continues through Dec. Read more...
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Swipes for the Homeless, a program in which students can donate meal swipes for food to feed the homeless, will take place during 10th week. (courtesy of Bryan Pezeskhi)
The University of California Board of Regents approved an 8 percent tution increase Thursday over calls by students, state officials and members of the board to seek longer-term solutions to budget difficulties. Read more...
As snippets of songs from clarinets, basses and violins blend and clash, eighth-grader Elida Flores glides her bow across the strings of her instrument. Her tutor, fourth-year psychobiology student Connie Yang, sings the corresponding notes and taps her foot to the beat. Read more...
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Fourth-year psychobiology student Connie Yang, a member of Bruin Music Tutors, teaches eighth-grader Elida Flores the violin at Daniel Webster Middle School.
BELL "”mdash; Driving into Bell, it isn't apparent where one town ends and the other begins. Read more...
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Dan Caroselli, an urban planning graduate student, presents a proposal for how to improve the heart of Bell at the corner of Atlantic and Gage avenues.
November 19, 2010 – Health care has become a contentious issue nation-wide, and now UCLA has a debate of its own. The UC system may soon consolidate individual campuses’ health insurance programs into one system. [3:39]
"University of California may merge all its campuses' health care programs into one"UCLA is considering opting into a University of California-wide health insurance plan for graduate students, a controversial proposal that has some students expressing doubts. Read more...
California's Senate took a hundred days to pass the budget, but students in Economics 106A had just 14 days to analyze it. Read more...
Connie Rice didn't find her specialty in civil rights law by any normal route. Rice's career as a specialist in gang violence began while she was standing in a designer suit outside a trailer in South Los Angeles, negotiating with gang members. Read more...
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Connie Rice, a lawyer and co-director of the Advancement Project Los Angeles, spoke at the School of Public Affairs about gangs on Thursday.
