It’s summertime and the living’s easy – but not as easy as many students taking summer classes at UCLA thought it would be. Students who choose to take regular UCLA classes in one of two condensed six-week sessions often find the classes more intense than classes taken during the regular academic year ““ despite a presumption that summer courses are easier. Read more...

The University of California Board of Regents voted overwhelmingly July 17 to add a clause to the faculty code of conduct restricting student-faculty dating. Previously, the UC had a resolution that strongly discouraged faculty from entering into relationships with students by telling them to “avoid any exploitation, harassment or discriminatory treatment of students.” The new amendment explicitly prohibits a relationship of a romantic or sexual nature ““ even if it is consensual. Read more...

With a sense of grim necessity, the University of California Board of Regents voted July 17 to raise student fees by 25 percent to help mitigate state cuts of at least $360 million to the university’s budget. Read more...

Jaime Gutierrez recently broke his ankle. Because he is uninsured, he had to drive 40 miles to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. But he said after waiting for 10 hours, he left without seeing a doctor. Read more...

SANTA MONICA “”mdash; Hundreds of mourners stood quietly at the intersection of Third Street and Arizona Avenue on Saturday, braving the noonday sun to attend a ceremony commemorating 10 victims killed by a car that drove through the farmers’ market there July 16. Read more...

Special Graduations The University of California Board of Regents rejected a proposal from Regent Ward Connerly on July 16 that would have suspended university funding to special graduation ceremonies, despite Connerly’s efforts to remove the proposal from a vote. Read more...

The first results of a UCLA study released last week show that California taxpayers are saving more money than expected due to Proposition 36, which gives first- and second-time drug offenders the option of rehabilitation with probation instead of jail time. Read more...