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Should P. Diddy's Son Qualify For A UCLA Scholarship?

| Posted 05.30.2012

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Story comes courtesy of LA Weekly By Dennis Romero [Updated at the bottom with UCLA noting that its athletic scholarships come from non-taxpayer...

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UCLA's Remarkable Face Transplant Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 05.27.2012

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Imagine going from having no face to having someone else's face. Face transplantation is the process of removing part or all of a donor's face and ...

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Bizarre and Delightful

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Photography, Cy Twombly, Media Arts, Ucla, Charles Ray, Mfa, Sculpture, James Franco, Moca, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles Art Exhibitions, La Art Galleries, Los Angeles Art Galleries, Arts News

Summertime used to mean that the galleries and museums would take it easy, presenting lackluster group shows and few, if any, challenging solo exhibitions. Not any more. Economy be damned, the Los Angeles art scene is now sizzling year round.

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Charity Impossible: Do America's Charities Need Rescuing?

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Apple, Twitter, Poverty, Homelessness, Third World America, Ucla, Robert Irvine, Darwinism, Impact News

Somehow, the social good charities that have an amazing ability to transform America's hurting people need help in creating brands that attract the eye of America's donors. We need the Robert Irvine of charities to help create a make-over in this changing new world.

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Black Doctor Depicted As Gorilla At UCLA Medical School

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.22.2012

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A faculty professor who filed a racial discrimination suit against UCLA, saying that the school ignored racial slights against him over his career, ha...

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The Mexican Celebration That's Not Mexican At All

HuffingtonPost.com | Victoria Infante | Posted 05.04.2012

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Cinco de Mayo is celebrated across the United States as a tradition of Mexican origin. And it is during late April and May that Mexican beer and tequi...

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UCLA Violates a Long-Standing Regent's Bequest and Endangers One of the Rarest Private Japanese Gardens in the United States

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 05.02.2012

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Preservation of significant designed landscapes, as I've written previously, is no easy matter, so any entity's pledge to maintain a nationally important work of landscape architecture "in perpetuity" is a victory.

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Strive for A's Not D's

Rebecca Joseph | Posted 04.19.2012

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Our schools need to promote higher standards. LAUSD should and can become a leader in the country of a movement to move kids towards true college readiness.

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'Engineered' Cells Hunt, Kill AIDS Virus In Provocative New Study

The Huffington Post | Melissa Cronin, David Freeman | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Video, Ucla, Stem Cells, Aids, AIDS Virus, Hiv, T Cells, Genetic Engineering, Science News

Can stem cells cure AIDS? Not yet. But a provocative new study shows that human stem cells can be genetically engineered to attack living cells infect...

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WATCH: Top High School Player Picks College.. With Haircut

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Shabazz-Muhammad, Nerlens Noel Hair, Shabazz-Muhammad Ucla, Nerlens Noel, Kentucky Basketball Recruiting, Ucla, Nerlens Noel Kentucky, Ucla Basketball, Nerlens Noel Haircut, College Basketball, Kentucky Basketball, Video, Sports News

Evan Jacoby, Rush The Court Say what you want about the signing day process, one that includes kids announcing their college intentions on live tel...

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Nearly 900 Wrongly Told They're Admitted To UCLA

AP | Posted 04.11.2012

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LOS ANGELES — Dear future UCLA student: Never mind. Nearly 900 high school seniors who thought they could tell family and friends they had earn...

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25 Universities With The Best Internet Buzz

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.05.2012

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Which university has the best Internet brand equity? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the best Internet buzz , according to the Global...

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Students Receive Accidental Cash Windfalls

Loren Berlin | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Financial Aid, Financial Aid Mistake, College Tuition, University of California, Ucla, University of California at Los Angeles, Financial Aid Error, Money News

What would you do if you discovered thousands of dollars mysteriously deposited in your bank account? Would you keep the money or return it to its rig...

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PHOTOS: Guess Which Cities Value Sex The Most

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.27.2012

California, you're dirty. LA, you're even dirtier. The state of California houses eight out of the top ten U.S. cities that "value sex most." What'...

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Don't Let College Rejections Stand in Your Way

Rebecca Joseph | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: College Students, College Admissions, College, Ucla, High School Seniors, Nacac, College Admissions Process, College Rejection Letters, College Rejection, College Acceptance, Picking a College, Community College, In State Tuition, Out of State Tuition, National College Decision Day, Transferring College, Transfer Students, College Acceptance Rates, Starting College, College Information Session, First Day of College, Visiting College, College Visits, College Tour, College News

May 1 is the national college decision day. So that means seniors and their families need to spend the next five weeks making some very powerful college decisions.

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UCLA Should Encourage Students to Go Beyond the Minimal Foreign Language Requirement

Daily Bruin | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Education Requirements, Learning Languages, Foreign Affairs, Ucla, College, Foreign Languages, College Degree, College News

How can we listen carefully and communicate clearly when we do not know the language of foreign peers?

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PHOTOS: Celebs Raise $500K To Help UCLA Save The Environment

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.16.2012

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Celebrities including Owen Wilson, Quincy Jones, Lana Del Rey, Jared Leto, Lawrence Bender and Vicci Martinez, a finalist from "The Voice," gathered i...

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Another Decade, Another New Way To Parent

Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.14.2012

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How quickly does American parenting change? Are today's parents different than they were 10 years ago?

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Should Incoming College Freshmen Have To Declare Their Sexual Orientation?

Posted 03.14.2012

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In addition to identifying their race, gender and ethnicity, incoming college freshmen at University of California schools may also be asked to identi...

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Should UCLA Ask Incoming Students If They're Gay?

Posted 03.13.2012

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Should UCLA ask incoming students about their sexual orientation? An op-ed from UCLA's student-run Daily Bruin newspaper says that despite the pot...

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Money And Madness

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 03.12.2012

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March Madness gets some of its juice from the crazy money bet on it. But there's other cash making the rounds in the NCAA Tournament, which begins Tue...

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Consider These Daily Habits To Avoid Alzheimer's

Posted 03.10.2012

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As individuals continue to live longer, millions of baby boomers are drawing attention to the number one risk factor of Alzheimer's disease: Age. "CBS...

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An Offer to Hear Arianna Speak On Transformational Leadership at UCLA on Saturday, March 17 at 8 PM

Huff TV | Posted 05.07.2012

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Arianna will be the keynote speaker at Insight University's Transformational Leaders Series on Saturday, March 17. She'll be speaking about how to cre...

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The 23 Colleges With The Most School Spirit

Posted 03.07.2012

Do you love wearing your school colors or attending sports games? You might want to go to a college with a lot of school spirit! Inside College r...

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Wild, Wild Westwood: The Fall Of UCLA Basketball

AP | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Mike Moser, Ucla, Ben Howland, Reeves Nelson, Reeves Nelson Ucla, Ucla Basketball, Mike Moser Ucla, College Basketball, Sports News

LOS ANGELES — Players and staff members from the past four UCLA basketball teams say that coach Ben Howland allowed an influx of talented but im...

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