Sara Taylor

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• Yes, it’s your job, but it’s also a chance to do something great

  June 11, 2007 at 12:12 a.m.

  It figures. I’ve known for years I would be writing a -30- column, yet here I am, a few hours before it is due, still figuring out what I want to say.

• Facebook Flyers attack USAC slates

  May 8, 2007 at 12:44 a.m.

  While candidates and their supporters blanketed campus Monday in preparation for the undergraduate student government elections, handing out treats, fliers and platform information to students passing by, another very different campaign had already begun on Facebook.

• Shooter, 23, identified

  April 18, 2007 at 1:35 a.m.

  Following Monday’s shooting at Virginia Tech – the deadliest such incident in the nation’s history – students at the Blacksburg, Va., campus mourned as details of the events became clearer. ...

• Men plead not guilty in cadaver case

  March 12, 2007 at 12:58 a.m.

  Two men accused of running a body-parts-for-profit scheme out of the UCLA Willed Body Program pleaded not guilty Friday, after being charged and arrested two days earlier. Henry Reid, the ...

• Men charged in cadaver scandal

  March 8, 2007 at 1:31 a.m.

  The former director of UCLA’s Willed Body Program and his associate were charged with felony and arrested Wednesday for allegedly selling body parts from cadavers that had been donated to ...

• Budget to cut programs

  Feb. 7, 2007 at 12:29 a.m.

  When President Bush announced last week his proposal to increase Pell Grants by 33 percent over the next five years, educators and lobbyists were concerned the funding for this would ...

• Student files lawsuit over Taser use

  Jan. 18, 2007 at midnight

  Two months after he was hit repeatedly with a Taser by university police, Mostafa Tabatabainejad has filed a civil rights lawsuit against UCLA and university police saying he “suffered an ...

• A Closer Look: UCPD ruled pros outweighed cons in device’s adoption

  Nov. 29, 2006 at midnight

  When the prospect of buying Tasers first became a possibility for university police in early 2004, officials listed several reasons why they did not plan to purchase the items. The ...

• Officer named in Taser incident

  Nov. 21, 2006 at midnight

  Terrence Duren, whose tenure with university police has included an award for UCPD Officer of the Year as well as allegations of police misconduct and use of excessive force, was ...

• Student to file suit in Taser incident

  Nov. 20, 2006 at midnight

  DOCUMENTS Click here for a pdf version of UCPD's taser policy. Mostafa Tabatabainejad has hired a lawyer to sue university police, and his attorney has offered the public its first ...