By the time the student could scoop up her belongings and find help, the tears were already coming.

When Jina Im was pledging her sorority as a second-year, she was shocked to find out that some of her fellow pledges were still virgins.

A campaign to raise $100 million for the UCLA School of Law launched Tuesday, marking the start of a 4 1/2-year effort to offset the effects of the state’s steadily declining financial support.

This year, the Olympic torch, a worldwide symbol of cultural understanding, athleticism and peace, has in some cities seen more armed guards along its course than it has athletes.

On a campus where political protests, mass condom distribution and on-campus gay unions are considered commonplace, the number of taboo subjects among students is steadily shrinking.

If pork is the other white meat, then fish is the other other white meat.

Andrew Mendoza, a third-year psychobiology student, was walking down Bruin Walk talking on his cell phone when he heard the siren call that caused him to stop dead in his tracks, temporarily derailing his journey home.

This time every year, students armed with Google maps and notepads wander through Westwood in conspicuous groups of four, evaluating each potential new home and secretly wondering how they’ll ever find the dorms again.

Chalk writing on the wall of the Broad Arts Center broke the news to Jeremiah Garcia that his classmate Michael Cho had been shot and killed by the police during a confrontation outside an Orange County liquor store on New Year’s Eve.

A vigil will be held in Bruin Plaza in honor of UCLA alumnus Michael Sungman Cho, aged 25, who was shot and killed by Orange County police officers during an alleged incident of vandalism two months ago.