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Chaos after false bomb threat at Cal State L.A.
The caller stood at a pay phone outside a Carl's Jr. in El Monte and warned police: Bombs will explode in two hours, he said. One at Cal State L.A. , the other at UC Berkeley. The reactions of the two public universities, though, were markedly...
Tags: Sports, Health and Safety at School, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Teaching and Learning, University of California, Los Angeles
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UCLA receives most freshman applications of any U.S. public college
With its giant volume of applications from around the state and world, UCLA is once again the toughest UC campus to crack for students who want to enroll in the fall as a freshman. According to statistics released Thursday, UCLA offered fall 2013...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of California, Los Angeles, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Teachers, University of California, Riverside
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UC expected to launch wide search for new president
Mark Yudof likes to point out that he was the first real outsider in more than a century chosen to run the sprawling University of California system. And he often jokes that, as a result of his leadership, it is likely to take a hundred years more...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Colleges and Universities, Regional Authority, Politics, Teachers
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UC acceptance rate of California seniors at record low
The chances of in-state high school seniors gaining admission to the University of California worsened this year, as more of them applied and the number accepted dropped 2.2%, according to data released Thursday. Meanwhile, the ranks of out-of-staters and...
Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, Human Accomplishments, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Les Blank dies at 77; prolific documentary filmmaker
When Les Blank arrived in the lush, untamed Amazon in 1981 to make a documentary about Werner Herzog's film, "Fitzcarraldo," he knew the German's reputation as a daredevil director. Herzog had chosen the remote jungle locale, plagued by tribal...Tags: Boston, Independent (Movie Genre), Movies, Culture, Social Sciences
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California needs to bolster regulation of fracking, report says
California needs to strengthen regulation of hydraulic fracturing, according to a UC Berkeley Law School report that identified a number of shortcomings in state oversight of the controversial practice. Although not new to California, fracking has...Tags: Energy Resources, Science and Technology, Petroleum Industry, Technology, Crime, Law and Justice
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UC Santa Barbara student leaders vote down divestment resolution
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details Elected student leaders at UC Santa Barbara voted down a resolution early Thursday that would have urged the UC system to divest from companies said to profit from anti-Palestinian...Tags: Palestine, University of California, Santa Barbara, Politics, Human Rights, Raytheon Company
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The basics of better schools
The bile flowed freely in the first round of L.A.'s school board elections in March, fueled by unprecedented sums of campaign money. To what end? Listening to the ads of the self-styled reformers, you'd have thought that charter schools were the...
Tags: Politics, Human Interest, Teachers, Elections, Immigration
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Scholarship Awards Breakfast: Newport Harbor
Rachel Anne Barney GPA: 4.4384 School Activities/Clubs: IB drama production of "Dear Brutus," Field Studies Club, IB History HL, IB English HL, IB Theatre HL, IB French SL, IB Environmental Science SL, IB Theory of Knowledge, IB diploma candidate, AP US...Tags: Politics, St. John's University, French Literature, Hospitals and Clinics, Entertainment
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Scholarship Awards Breakfast: Corona del Mar
Troy Bolus GPA: 4.5 School Activities/Clubs: track, Photography Club Community: peer tutor, Illumination Foundation Awards/Honors: Most Valuable Player varsity track 2012, Best Varsity Jumper 2010-11 Hobbies/Interests: guitar, golf, skiing,...Tags: Politics, Cornell University, UNICEF, French Literature, Entertainment
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L.A. Philharmonic's young composers program fine-tunes talent
It wasn't B.J. Thomas, exactly, but musical raindrops seemed to be falling in a white-walled rehearsal room next to Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of Milo Talwani, one of the L.A. composers least likely to write melody, let alone ear candy, into a...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Cornell University, New York City, Entertainment, Festive Events
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