Monday, July 27

Students lobby for Sudan divestment with memorial

The UC Sudan Divestment Taskforce prepared for Thursday’s UC Board of Regents meeting with a memorial for genocide victims at Meyerhoff Park on Tuesday. Tombstones with the number of dead from the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan surrounded students, who held up pictures of the regents and recited what they hope to hear the actual regents say on Thursday. Read more...




Program advertises campus events

With dozens of cultural, artistic and sports events every week at UCLA, the university has added a new branch of its Happenings campaign which employs student anchors presenting events through a broadcast medium. Read more...


Million dollar grant to expand research on Israel

UCLA’s International Institute has been awarded $1 million to fund research and programs on a range of contemporary Israeli issues. The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation gave a chaired endowment ““ a research budget given to a professor ““ to the institute’s Israel Studies Program last November. Read more...


Club California condos attract a diverse crowd

When residents move into Club California’s newly renovated condos this year, they will find neighbors who represent a unique mix in the Village. Undergraduate and graduate students, doctors and other professionals will be living under one roof when the housing complex opens this summer, said Erika Aspericueta, a UCLA alumna and the transaction coordinator for Century 21 Award, which is handling sales. Read more...


Bill to widen freeway signed

Current UCLA students may never see a reduction in the traffic that plagues the 405 Freeway from the 101 Freeway interchange to the 10 Freeway. But the next generation of Bruins might. Read more...