Ka Yan “Karen” Kwok touched and forever changed the lives of numerous people in her life of 18 years. Close friends and acquaintances came to a memorial held in Kwok’s honor in the Rieber Activity Room Tuesday evening to share fond memories of her. Read more...

UCLA’s Facilities Management ran sprinklers during midday repeatedly this month, a behavior environmental groups call wasteful. A Los Angeles city ordinance aimed at water conservation prohibits anyone from using sprinklers between 10 a.m. Read more...

Many nonprofit human service organizations in Los Angeles are facing difficult times due to impending budget cuts in California, according to a report released last week by the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Read more...

A tent city set up in support of the diversity requirement kicked off Tuesday night, and some believe the event’s timing is a way for Students First! Read more...

The graduate council of the Academic Senate endorsed on Monday the departmental proposal submitted by the César E. Chávez Center for interdisciplinary instruction in Chicana/o studies and said the legendary labor organizer’s name could stay in the department title. Read more...

Correction appended For 17 years, students at UCLA have pushed to make a diversity requirement part of the general education curriculum for each undergraduate student. While propositions for the requirement have been submitted to the university over that period, the Academic Senate ““ UCLA’s faculty government directly in charge of academic matters ““ has decided against such plans in favor of other measures to foster multiculturalism. Read more...

Correction appended As the circle of student supporters of the diversity requirement deepened, so did the emotions Tuesday night at the inauguration of tent city. Amid tears, students from numerous minority campus organizations joined Undergraduate Students Association Council members for the beginning of a three-day campout in front of Schoenberg Hall to demand that UCLA incorporate a diversity requirement into its curriculum. Read more...