Afton Coombs

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• Audio slideshow: Battle Royale 2009

  May 4, 2009 at 5:25 a.m.

  Audio Slideshow: Battle Royale</a>" type="populous_inlines.TextInline">Click above to view an audio slideshow from Battle Royale 2009, in which NSU Modern, Samahang Modern, and ACA Hip Hop competed. Click below to view ...

• Real estate, business professionals to speak at Crocker Symposium

  April 9, 2008 at 1:22 a.m.

  Real estate professionals will gather at the Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium on Real Estate Law and Business 2008 to confront issues currently facing their field.

• Jewish sorority to be initiated

  Jan. 22, 2008 at 12:48 a.m.

  During the first week of February, the UCLA colony of the Jewish sorority Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi will become initiated as a full chapter.

• Empty frat house a pesty presence for neighbors on Gayley

  Jan. 10, 2008 at 1:07 a.m.

  A boarded-up building at 611 Gayley Ave., with fences twisted away from the frames, trash littering its yard and faded Greek letters painted on its walls, has sat between its polished and painted neighbors along fraternity row for years.

• Musical aid for Mexico flood

  Nov. 30, 2007 at 2:12 a.m.

  To raise money for victims of a massive flood in Tabasco, Mexico, Dykstra Hall resident assistants will hold “Live Aid” tonight at 7 p.m. in the Tom Bradley International Student ...

• Sierra Club and E3 team up for sex education

  Nov. 9, 2007 at midnight

  “The fate of the world is in your hands ... and in your pants,” read the poster for the E3 and Sierra Club event titled “Sex and the Environment.”

• Program assistants plan social events for dorms

  Oct. 18, 2007 at 1:20 a.m.

  In those dorms where students usually keep their doors shut and never meet their neighbors, program assistants are now set up to encourage people to leave their rooms and participate in community events.

• Get Legal brings Ruckus to campus

  Oct. 8, 2007 at 1:15 a.m.

  UCLA’s Get Legal program is attempting to deter copyright infringement by using the new digital music program Ruckus to try and prevent illegal downloading on campus.

• Health school receives grant to combat obesity

  Oct. 4, 2007 at 2:46 a.m.

  The UCLA School of Public Health received a $4.25 million grant to be used for improving health in low-income populations.