Friday, July 3


UCLA may lose two programs

Los Angeles County may close two hospitals where UCLA runs teaching and research programs if voters don’t bail out the county’s trauma centers with a multi-million dollar ballot measure Tuesday. Read more...


Online voters pass fee hike

Undergraduates made a positive case for online voting last week when they approved a fee referendum that injects a fiscal shot in the arm of their student government. Read more...


Funding for education, not prisons, vital to blacks

Be prepared when you meet one of the handful of black men who entered UCLA this fall based on academics alone. Take pictures, call your friends, and write in your journal because you’ve seen an endangered species in higher education: a black male student. Read more...



Patients need medicinal marijuana for relief

The latest court ruling from the most liberal appeals court in the country has pot users and suffering patients rejoicing while the government cringes. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that doctors who recommend marijuana primarily to patients suffering from cancer, AIDS and glaucoma cannot have their physician’s license taken away, nor can the federal government threaten to investigate them recommending medicinal marijuana. Read more...