Skid Row is right outside. Between two of the dozens of tents
pitched along the sidewalk, a man with his back resting on a
chain-link fence has drawn his syringe full of heroin, and will
inject it unless his leathery faced lookout sees a patrol car.

For a week now, students walking along Bruin Walk may have seen
grotesque images of the Armenian Genocide ““ emaciated
children, dismembered bodies and dead Armenians swinging from the
noose.

In a future-looking symposium on the book “Don
Quixote,” scholars from across the Atlantic and around the
country are gathering at UCLA to celebrate the anniversary of
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s timeless classic.

The UCLA International Conference Series in Armenian Studies
commemorated the 90th Anniversary of the Ottoman Turkish genocide
of Armenians in a three-day conference held this weekend.

Eric Tang traveled to Africa to build a library in a Zambian
refugee camp after his 2004 graduation from UCLA.
“It’s mutually empowering,” he said,
“not just for the refugee, but for the college student as
well.”
This year, a book donation drive will be held at UCLA from
finals week throughout spring quarter to provide money for refugee
relief and education programs.

In an attempt to remain competitive with other universities,
graduate students from the north to the south side of campus are
being charged higher fees to offset the drop in state funding to
the University of California system over the past five years.

Both measures on the March 8 city election ballot propose to
amend the City Charter rules governing the fire and police
departments pension plans.
Charter Amendment 1 seeks to include port police officers in the
same pension plans the Los Angeles Fire Department and the Los
Angeles Police Department uses.