Students lined the sides of Bruin Walk at noon on Tuesday to protest what they feel is a lack of diversity in the University of California system as well as the recent hate crimes that have occurred on other campuses. Read more...
Photo: Pao Xiong, a fifth-year physics student, took part in Tuesday’s rally at Meyerhoff Park. Students protested a lack of diversity in the UC system and advocated for the creation of general education diversity requirement at UCLA.
Alberto Torrico, California State Assembly majority leader and Democratic candidate for state attorney general, will be on campus today to speak about Assembly Bill 656, a bill aimed at generating up to $2 billion for higher education in California. Read more...
More than a hundred University of California students assembled on the steps of the California Capitol in Sacramento on Monday while chanting, holding signs and pressuring legislators to make higher education a priority in a state marred by budget crises. Read more...
A report published this winter indicates that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has increased fourfold in California patients from 1999 to 2007. Read more...
For a group of high school students in Inglewood, a community gardening project began with picking up debris: bags, bottle caps, a sprouting potato and crack pipes. Read more...
Photo: Students at Morningside High School in Inglewood read seed packet directions before planting rows of plants and vegetables at an empty lot across the street from their school as a part of the Empowerment Community Garden project. To vote for this project, go to refresheverything.com
All 58 University of California students who are currently studying abroad in Chile have been accounted for, after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit the country Saturday morning. Read more...
Santa Monica felt the negligible secondary effects of the 8.8 magnitude Chilean earthquake Saturday as a 2.3-foot tsunami hit the shore around 12 p.m., causing little to no damage or inconvenience. Read more...
