Will Weiss

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• Renovation to retain old feel of Pauley Pavilion

  Sept. 30, 2009 at 2:17 a.m.

  When the doors to Pauley Pavilion opened in 1965, school administrators were already talking about a renovation.

• University provides resources for financially distressed

  May 6, 2009 at 12:16 a.m.

  Times are hard.

• Look beneath the surface to uncover messages

  April 8, 2009 at 5:06 a.m.

  Though a great deal of lore, if not tradition, at UCLA is associated with the university’s network of steam tunnels that run beneath campus, UCLA and its employees take steps to prevent students from getting in.

• Students gather to fight Prop. 8

  March 9, 2009 at 1:07 a.m.

  Dave Valk says he is leading a charge.

• Villaraigosa reelected mayor

  March 4, 2009 at 1:48 a.m.

  By a margin that was considerably smaller than had been expected, incumbent Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was reelected to his post by the voters of Los Angeles on Tuesday.

• Issues forum scheduled

  Feb. 23, 2009 at 2:19 a.m.

  Candidates for the Los Angeles Unified School District board and advocates both in support of and opposed to Measure B, will be speaking in Haines 220 at 7 tonight as part of a local election forum organized by the undergraduate student government external vice president’s office.

• ASUCLA suffers net losses

  Feb. 11, 2009 at 12:03 a.m.

  Consistent with national economic trends, Associated Students UCLA, the institution that runs all of UCLA’s restaurants, services, the student store and virtually all of Ackerman Union, has suffered net losses both in recent months and since this time last year. Figures released late last month for December 2008 show that sales are off by 4 to 5 percent since the start of this fiscal year, down nearly $2 million since July.

• UCLA students change direction

  Jan. 14, 2009 at 7:35 a.m.

  If statistics are any sort of benchmark, most UCLA undergraduates are pleased with their college experience. UCLA has a freshman retention rate of 97 percent and a first-year transfer retention rate of 95 percent, according to Vu Tran, director of undergraduate admissions and relations with schools.

• RIAA opts to alter

  Jan. 13, 2009 at 1:09 a.m.

  Students facing civil litigation suits brought by the recording industry may have reason to sigh in relief after the organization’s recent announcement that it will be changing its methods of protecting copyrighted material.

• Revised route receives mixed reviews

  Jan. 6, 2009 at 1:18 a.m.

  Undeterred by the recently changed Undie Run route, students stayed true to tradition as they ran along the police barricaded path in Bruin Plaza on Dec. 10.