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UCLA Basketball Uniforms Universally Hated

UCLA's one-off Adidas uniforms, rolled out for the school's bid at Pac-12 basketball supremacy, are supposed to "stun your opponents" and convey a sense of motion that's "crazy fast," according to the sportswear maker. But some fans think they're just plain crazy. The website Deadspin got a hold o ... More >>

UCLA Is A Top 5 Value Among American Public Universities, Princeton Review Says

There are times in life when cheaper is not necessarily better: when you're choosing a doctor, a life-mate or, perhaps, an institution of higher learning. In this case, we'll give UCLA props. It keeps scoring big lately: The Westwood campus was recently named one of the best schools in the world by ... More >>

UCLA Student's Attempted Murder In Hollywood Could Be Linked To Campus Attack

The Jan. 2 attempted murder of a student who had taken a bus home from UCLA to East Hollywood might be connected to an attempted sexual assault on campus five days later, according to a report tonight in the Daily Bruin. In the Hollywood case the victim reported a suspect of a similar description f ... More >>

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UCLA Graffiti Calls Out Latina Students: Police Are Looking For Idiots And Treating Case as Hate Crime

UCLA students living near campus were targeted with anti-Latino graffiti this week, prompting university police to launch a hate-crime investigation, according to reports. The UCLA Daily Bruin says the graffiti on an apartment door, stairs and a nearby fence have messages such as, "you rude ignoran ... More >>

African American Men Have 7 Fewer Years to Live Than Whites

Sure, history has turned a corner for African Americans. There's that one president. (And he might just get reelected if gas stays below $8 a gallon). There's multimillionaire Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry. And basketball sensation Jeremy Lin. Wait. He's what now? Oh, you get the picture. But UCLA ... More >>

UC System Bans Cigarette Smoking Anywhere on Campus

A strict new "no smoking" policy for the University of California will ban the use, sale or advertisement of any tobacco product anywhere on campus. Pretty extreme, but to be expected -- because, unlike keeping tuition affordable for students, UC leaders have always made it a priority to stay on th ... More >>

Morrissey & Kristeen Young - The Shrine Auditorium - 11-26-11

Timothy Norris​See also: Our Morrissey slideshow Morrissey & Kristeen Young The Shrine Auditorium 11-26-11 Better than ... walking down Hoover in a blue-&-gold Bruins shirt after the big game. For a person who once famously declared that he was celibate, Steven Patrick Morrissey is clearly ... More >>

Transgender Students Could Cross Opposite-Sex Roommate Divide at UCLA Under Proposed Campus Dorm Policy

Sam T​Traditional on-campus roomy situations at UCLA almost always involve boys living with boys and girls living with girls. But what if you're a boy who looks like a girl and is in the process of becoming a girl? Could you still live with a girl? That's a possibility because ...

Moshe Kai Cavalin, UCLA Child Prodigy, Wrote Bestseller in Spare Time; Thinks You Can, Too!

Is there nothing 13-year-old Moshe Kai Cavelin can't do? Kid graduated from East Los Angeles Community College in astrophysics with a 4.0 last year, at which point he transfered to UCLA for math. (His LinkedIn profile lists his expected graduation date as 2012. Uh, did we mention he has a LinkedIn ... More >>

USC Beats UCLA in U.S. News & World Report's Annual Rankings of Top American Universities

​It's bad enough for us Bruins to have to endure the constant beat downs by USC in football (even when team's not even post-season eligible). But these U.S. News & World Report rankings are too much. Once again USC has edged out UCLA in its list of top-flight national universities, with the ... More >>

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Courtesy of the Getty VillaThe Helen and Hecuba Show, in "Trojan Women (After Euripides)"​​SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate affair about despair, oddly floating in its own world. See Theater feature on Wednesday.  Also check out this ... More >>

'No Recovery in Sight,' Says UCLA Anderson Forecast

Adam TinworthShop for America.​Things were looking up there for a second, right? Unemployment was creeping down, people were starting buy houses again, you got the new iPhone. And then, boom: Housing prices went toilet-bound again, unemployment barely budged, and the stock market is experie ... More >>

U.S. Veterans Affairs Sued for Leasing Giant Parcel in West L.A. to Enterprise Rent-a-Car, UCLA Baseball Team -- Not Homeless Vets

veteranstoday.com"Locked Out of West LA VA"​You can often hear West L.A. residents, and those on the nearby Santa Monica border, whining about the rampant homeless-veteran population in their area (which is trying desperately to gentrify -- to polish itself into the next Brentwood or Beverly H ... More >>

Dalai Lama Disses UCLA Due to 'Sore Throat,' Recovers Just in Time for USC Appearance

USCTrojans = The Chosen Ones.​Wait -- did the Dalai Lama just choose sides in the epic UCLA vs. USC rivalry? As if Los Angeles' two biggest institutions of higher education didn't have enough to fight over -- Bruins fans vs. Trojans fans, Alexandra Wallace vs. Kappa Sigma bro, seeker vs. snitc ... More >>

USC Students Have More Sex Than UCLA Rivals, According to OkCupid

John Martinez PavligaWoot-woot: USC slaps UCLA, again.​USC Trojans. With a name like that, it figures that the young men and woman of Troy are claiming yet another victory over crosstown rival UCLA. Yep, Trojans have more sex than Bruins. Duh. Trojans were practically made for sex. That USC ... More >>

Party-Foul Fines Could be Reality in Newport Beach This Summer

Dennis Rodman would be kicked out of this game.​Your next hangover just might come with an $8,000 price tag. That's right. The city of Newport Beach gave preliminary approval last night to an ordinance that would put the "party foul" into law there -- including tickets with fines as high as $ ... More >>

USC, UCLA Muggles -- Broomsticks in Crotch -- Prepare for 'Largest Quidditch Event Ever to Occur West of the Mississippi' This Weekend

Trojans vs. Bruins, for the snitch! (Really though.)​Updated after the jump: USC's quidditch captain tells us his team has fewer players than UCLA (shocker), so their chances are slim. He also shares with us the plight of the HUMAN SNITCH. This just keeps getting better. Holy nerdball. We've ... More >>

Alexandra Wallace, UCLA Student, Rants on Asians for Phoning Tsunami Victims in the Library (VIDEO)

YouTubeOvernight celebrity Alexandra Wallace, pretending to be an Asian student on his cell phone​Update: Death threats, poli-sci finals and the First Amendment. Updated after the jump with the university's response. Plus: UCLA Chancellor Gene Block makes a video of his own, and bikini pics o ... More >>

Burbank Kids Bribed Into Caring About College With Reenactment Of USC-UCLA Rivalry

halloweenbearcostume.comRawwwr! I stab you in face and eat your team for lunch!​Hey kids! Did you know that UCLA is one of the top public universities in the country, with stellar undergraduate opportunities in the social sciences and a prestigious faculty that includes three professors electe ... More >>

USC Appears To Strike First In Rivalry With UCLA: Westwood Campus Fountain Water Turned Red

Daily BruinAll your fountain are belong to US(C).​It's that time of year when your friends at UCLA and USC go at it in anticipation of the annual football match between the crosstown foes that has become of the country's greatest sports rivalries. It looks like the spoiled children of USC str ... More >>

USC Is Getting Visit By Obama; UCLA Gets Clinton: Who's Getting The Better Speaker?

Bill Clinton is at UCLA tonight.​Those dueling visits by presidents Obama and Clinton we told you about have turned into another classic bout between archrivals USC and UCLA, and we have to ask: Which school is getting the better speaker? Obama is heading to USC next Friday (Oct. 22) to speak ... More >>

USC Beats UCLA In ... Smarts?

​USC beat crosstown rival UCLA this week, and it wasn't, as usual, on the football field. No, surprisingly, the win is in the academic arena, as USC outranked UCLA in U.S. News & World Report's annual national college rankings. The Trojans ended up one step above the Bruins at 23 to 25 (there ... More >>

Spice, So-Called Legal Marijuana, Sold Near UCLA Campus

​It looks like "spice," the legal, marijuana-like substance that has sparked controversy across the nation, is making inroads in Los Angeles. The UCLA Daily Bruin reports that the product, sold under names such as K2 and Black Mamba, is available in Westwood Village and that, so far, the local ... More >>

UCLA 'Daily Bruin' Ranks Among Best Student Newspapers In The Nation

​UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper made the Princeton Review's list of top 20 college newspapers, according to the journalism blog Romenesko. The publication came in at number 13, behind the University of Texas (12) and West Virginia University. Number one? That would be Yale Daily News.

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Goal: Upscale Sports Bar Hopes to Score on West 3rd Street

The strangest thing about Goal, LA's newest upscale sports bar, isn't what's there. It's what's missing. Recently soft-opened on a stretch of W. 3rd St. known more for chic cafes and fine dining, Goal offers the de rigueur décor of a sports bar: dark wood, leather booths, plenty of flatscreen plasm ... More >>

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UCLA Students Caught Sleeping; Bear Violated

KTLA​UCLA often spins itself as the smarter, higher-GPA-having school in town, but by the looks of its Bruin bear sculpture, you'd have to chalk one up for the wit and fortitude of USC: Despite an annual student "security force" that's supposed to protect the bear and despite a tarp covering t ... More >>

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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 >>

Bruin Baiting: UCLA Paper Still Getting Rapped Over Ad

[Friday Update: Today's Al Tompkins Poynter column continues the discussion.]Critics continue to pile onto the decision, by UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper, to run a front-page wrap ad on its Tuesday edition. This kind of ad, which duplicates the look of a paper's true front page that appears after the ... More >>

Bruin Ruin? UCLA's Newspaper Faces "Grim" Future

L.A. Observed and others have noted that today UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper ran a front-page wrap-around ad for Haagen-Dazs ice cream. An editor's note by Anthony Pesce, linked to by LAist, admitted that the ad was contrived to make it appear as editorial copy. Forget ad reps -- at this point in pri ... More >>

And Worth Every Trust-Fund Dollar: Pete Carroll's Salary

Today's Daily Trojan publishes a story, unconfirmed by the University of Southern California, that superstar football coach Pete Carroll "is not only the highest paid employee at USC but at any private university in the country." The DT bases its piece on a report issued by the Chronicle of Higher E ... More >>

Et Tu, Bruins?

I'm a UCLA grad but I've got to hand it to USC (my wife's alma mater) -- they throw a wide party net when it comes to their alumni-sponsored Rival Week Activities before and during this Saturday afternoon's Big Game. In Manhattan, for example, the USC Alumni Club of New York takes over a Murray Hi ... More >>

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