Higher Education

Jorge Cham: The Overeducated Cartoonist

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Jorge Cham got his introduction to cartoons as a child in Panama. His parents were engineers who worked on the Panama Canal. When an American family they knew moved away, they l ... More >>

UCLA Ranks High In Latest 'Best Graduate Schools' List

UCLA has been on a roll when it comes to outsize rankings for what is, essentially, a big, urban state college. After scoring a top-10 position in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings earlier this month the university is boasting that many of its graduate programs have made the late ... More >>

UCLA Ranked Top 10 Best Public College Value In America By Kiplinger's

In fall UCLA was named one of the best universities in the world by Times Higher Education in the UK. Next month's Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine gives the Westwood school an even more important distinction: One of the "10 Best Public College Values" in the United States for 2013:

Brandon Woodard, Would-Be Rapper From L.A., Murdured In Daylight 'Hit' In NYC

A 31-year-old aspiring rapper from L.A. was fatally shot in broad daylight in a touristy area of Midtown Manhattan yesterday. Accounts indicate it was a professional-style hit. Brandon Woodard, a Loyola Marymount University grad and perennial law school student with a possible arrest record was des ... More >>

UCLA Is No Longer Crime Leader Among U.S. Colleges, Website Admits (Sort Of)

A website's declaration that UCLA is the most crime-prone campus in the nation last week had many of us in the L.A. news media shaking our heads with doubt. WTF? It's a question LA Weekly posed to the publication in question, Business Insider. It responded with crickets. Until last night. A publici ... More >>

Caltech is World's Best University; UCLA Ranks 13

Los Angeles: Home of the Playboy Bunny, Ashton Kutcher and pet spas. This we all know. But who knew that our town is where the smartest nerds in the world get their degrees on? It's true. According to the latest World University Rankings by Times Higher Education in the UK ...

Sexual Attraction Lowers Women's Level of Disgust

Why are disgusting things like sweat and body odor not so bad during sex? Well, the answer is, nobody knows exactly why, but researchers recently did reveal this possibility: Women do let down their guards during sex when it comes to stuff that would normally turn them off. Yeah, that mythical o ... More >>

Comments: For-Profit Colleges and the Life of Henry Rollins Draw in Our Readers

UCLA Business School Wants to Privatize, Forgo Tax Dollars

As the UC and Cal State systems struggle with budget cuts and increasingly unhappy and unruly student bodies, one UCLA school is bucking the trend and actually inviting more cuts. In fact, UCLA's Anderson School of Management wants zero tax dollars: It's asking to be cut off from the system almost ... More >>

USC Murder: Chinese Graduate Students May Have Been Shot, Killed for Their BMW

Update: The Chinese grad students were reportedly studying electrical engineering. More police details and student reactions after the jump. A man and a woman murdered in their BMW near the USC campus this morning were graduate students from China, according to the LAPD. They are both thought to ha ... More >>

California Public College Students to Be Asked if They're Gay or Straight

Next year aspiring UC and Cal State students will probably be asked, along with requests for age and ethnicity, if they're gay or straight. Why, you ask, is that any business of theirs? It's not, entirely: Whether or not you answer, as with the question about ethnicity, will be optional. But a n ... More >>

USC, UCLA Make National Top 10 Wish Lists of Would-Be Students, Parents

USC and UCLA barely made the top 25 of U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Colleges rankings, but the crosstown rivals seem to do just find in other contests (and we're not just talking football and basketball). The London Times' Higher Education rankings recently placed UCLA at number 9 -- one ... More >>

Mother of Fabrice Casteran Sues Vatel College and Hyatt Hotel Chain Over Son's Suicide

​Frenchman Fabrice Casteran could not take it any more. Enrolled in a MBA program at Vatel International Business School, one of those for-profit colleges, he was supposed to be working at a paid hotel and hospitality internship in a management position. Instead he found himself scrubbing filthy ... More >>

Jerry Brown Says $1 Billion in Emergency State Cuts Required: Universities, Colleges Targeted

JB.​All those Occupy and ReFund California protesters pissed off over the rising cost of college in California could find a new reason to be mad today. Gov. Jerry Brown announced that the state budget would have to undergo an additional $1 billion in cuts after tax revenues didn't meet rosy p ... More >>

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Santa Monica Bar Report: Circle Bar

The Place: Circle Bar, 2926 Main Street, Santa Monica; 310-450-0508. The Hours: Sat.-Thu. 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; Fri. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. The Digs: The fact that Jim Morrison did some drinking at this downtown Santa Monica mainstay means nothing to us. He would do it anywhere he could, surely never turning ... More >>

FTC Cracks Down on Four Loko Again

There's a reason there's "Four" in the name, and it isn't for four healthy vitamins and minerals. A 23 ½-oz. can of the drink Four Loko contains the alcohol equivalent of 4 ½ beers. Now the label will say so, after Phusion Projects, maker of the "blackout in a can," reached an agreement with the F ... More >>

Kelly Pham, UCLA Student From La Mirada, Killed in Saturday-Night DUI Crash

FacebookKelly Pham's profile picture​A young UCLA graduate who had reportedly just been accepted into the university's law school was killed in a brutal crash during the wee hours of Sunday morning. The victim, 21-year-old Kelly Pham, was riding in the passenger seat of a 2006 Mazda driven by ... More >>

College Kids Agree: Being Drunk is More Fun Than Not Being Drunk

​To get drunk or not to get drunk? That be the question. On one hand, there's the vomiting, blackouts and hangovers. On the other hand, there's that shot of courage only booze can deliver, the euphoric drunken chattiness and other social benefits. Guess which one wins.

Demitasse Will Not Have Pourover Coffee Other Twists on the Third Wave Coffee Shop

Bobak Roshan, DemitasseDemitasse's Clever brewing bar.​ Most law school career service offices will tell you that a Juris Doctor degree is an invaluable life passport. "This is really open doors for you. You'll be able to do almost anything," they boast in the glossy admissions packets. Tel ... More >>

Fullerton Phi Sigma Kappa Brothers Stabbed at Cinco de Mayo Party

Google MapsTeri Place in Fullerton.​For some frat guys in Fullerton, Cinco de Mayo wasn't the fun-loving, beer-consuming, quasi-holiday it should have been. Not after a six to eight men walked up to two Cal State Fullerton Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity brothers and stabbed them about 1:40 a.m. t ... More >>

Q & A with Eric Greenspan, Part 2: Culinary School or Not Culinary School, Etc.

Photo by Felicia Friesema.​In Part 1 of our interview with Eric Greenspan, we discovered that The Foundry on Melrose is somehow a tight ship and a wild ride at the same time. The chef waxed poetic (and, well, dropped a lot of f-bombs) as he discussed the challenges of owning a restaurant, the ... More >>

UCLA's Millionaire Doctor David Feinberg

How Feinberg got $1.3 million amid tuition hikes, budget cuts and a recession

Insurance Company Says it Doesn't Have to Pay for Fraternity Hazing Death of Cal Poly Student Carson Starkey

Carson Starkey​A little more than two years ago, Carson Starkey, an 18-year-old freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, was found dead in the utility room of a fraternity from alcohol poisoning. Starkey had been pledging Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and during a ritual hazing dubbed, "Brown Bag Night," ... More >>

USC Frat House Kappa Sigma Sends Out Email That Paints Sorority Women as Prostitutes, 'Targets'

Kappa Sigma​Leave it to a frat house to remind us how utterly retarded and immature men are. Because nothing says enlightened like a 21st century white boy in a college club for dorks who can't get laid. USC fraternity Kappa Sigma is getting national heat for an email sent out to members abou ... More >>

State Students Will Likely Find Little Relief From Fee Hikes, Despite Jerry Brown Taking the Governor's Seat

Brown said he won't fight fee hikes his first year as governor​ Cal State University students will have to fork over more money for school fees after trustees voted to increase tuition by another 15.5 percent, the fourth fee hike in three years. Trustees on the board's finance committee vote ... More >>

Marijuana Legalization Backers Claim California Youth Vote Is Turning Out To Back Prop. 19

Are young people turning up at the polls?​Updated after the jump with confirmation that some polling places near college campuses in San Diego did run out of provisional ballots. First posted at 2:17 p.m. Organizers of the campaign to legalize marijuana on Tuesday claimed that the youth vote ... More >>

California Proposition 23 Election Results: Big Green Defeats Big Oil in Contentious Showdown Over What's Best for California's Economy

"No on 23" campaign poster​Update, 11:46 p.m.: With 39 percent of California precincts reporting, Prop. 23 is heading for a major loss -- 59 percent of voters oppose the ballot measure while 41 percent support it. Opponents of Proposition 23 won a major victory tonight, shooting down the bal ... More >>

'Fake Nursing School' In Koreatown To Pay Half-Million Settlement

PoramapornN via Flickr​ A "fake nursing school" in Koreatown agreed to pay a half-million-dollar settlement to students who authorities say were tricked into paying thousands of dollars in tuition to become registered nurses, according to a statement from the office of California Attorney Gene ... More >>

Cal Poly Pomona Recieves Largest Monetary Gift In The History Of California State University System

Flickr via claimsmantooCal Poly Pomona​The W.K. Kellogg Foundation made the largest donation in the history of the California State University system Monday, awarding Cal Poly Pomona $42 million to increase access to education opportunities. "In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the bi ... More >>

WHERE'S TELLY SAVALAS AND YUL BRYNNER WHEN YOU NEED 'EM?

L.A., You're Not As Smart As You Think: San Francisco And New York Are More Educated

​Los Angeles is the land of UCLA, USC and those brainiacs at Caltech, not to mention President Obama's alma mater Occidental College, the Claremont Colleges, Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Cal States ad infinitum, etc. So one might might think that the nation's second-largest metropolitan area ... More >>

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UCLA Prof Proposes Sending Convicts To College

UCLAChon A. Noriega.​As the state is poised to embark upon a historic prisoner release, one professor argues that sending convicts to college could save the state hundreds of millions of dollars in lockup costs while at the same time turning career criminals in productive members of society. ... More >>

Tuition At UC Schools Could Top $10,000 A Year

Stuck with a $535 million gap in their budget, a University of California Board of Regents committee met at UCLA Wednesday and approved a plan that would raise annual undergraduate tuition fees above the $10,000 mark.UCLA​ The proposal that would see annual undergraduate costs reach $11,302, ... More >>

UCLA Officials: Undie Run Is Finished

After seven brief seasons of existence, UCLA's Undie Run, a nocturnal event in which students run through Westwood streets and onto campus in their underwear on Wednesdays of finals weeks, will be no more. Thank university administrators, who pulled the plug on the storied event a few days ago, prob ... More >>

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