Friday, July 31

Giving children a glimpse of college life

With their perfected 8-claps, UCLA football jerseys, and blue and gold accessories, the thousands of participants in the I’m Going to College event on Saturday could almost pass for current UCLA students. Read more...


City Hall connects to UCLA

Students looking to get their foot in the door of city politics may be in luck, as this coming spring, second-year graduate students from UCLA’s School of Public Affairs will be able to apply to a yearlong fellowship in the mayor’s office. Read more...


Editorial: Marijuana should be legalized, regulated

Marijuana opponents think we should keep the drug far away from our society. They think legalization would only allow its negative effects to take over. We argue quite the opposite: If we bring pot closer to the mainstream, we will watch many of the problems go up in smoke. Read more...


Conference inspires model behavior

Bunche Hall was transformed into a center of foreign policy debate Veteran’s Day weekend, as hundreds of high school students in formal attire arrived to attend the 14th annual UCLA Model United Nations Conference. Read more...


Water purification advances

UCLA researchers say they have developed a new way to convert salt water to fresh water that will be more cost-efficient than current methods. Eric Hoek, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and his team of researchers at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced Nov. Read more...


Film breaks language barriers

Swahili is not the most common language in films, but that is exactly the aspect of the movie industry that Tanzanian director Josiah Kibira wants to change. Read more...