Subpar working conditions and perpetual strikes have become a campus norm at the University of California. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, which represents service workers and patient care technicians, has been in contract negotiations for better wages and benefits with the UC for almost two years now. Read more...

UCLA Residential Life’s tagline is “Where community happens.” This week, though, we learned what else happens on the Hill: fear. Student employees on the Hill fear losing their housing. Read more...

There’s an election this week to determine who will steer the course of Westwood for the next half-year. The race is almost entirely uncontested, but that’s not the troubling part. Read more...

UCLA is set on entering the camera business. It might not have a clear idea of how to go about it, though. Last week, members of the student body heavily criticized the university’s plans to centralize its system of on-campus cameras and allow UCPD officers to access footage in case of emergencies. Read more...

UCLA seems to have forgotten that the Interfraternity Council is run by children. Over the summer, the campus community was once again reminded of the problem of sexual violence in the Greek system when a student filed a sexual assault lawsuit against the IFC, the Zeta Beta Tau and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities, and Blake Lobato, a former member of ZBT found by UCLA to have committed statutory rape. Read more...

Gov. Jerry Brown has a long list of greatest hits. He saw California through the lasting effects of the Great Recession and shored up billions in financial reserves to weather a future economic dip. Read more...

$1,200 is apparently chump change at UCLA. But for the university’s medical residents, or physicians in training, who live in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Los Angeles, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Read more...