Campus and community events for the week of Sept. 7, 2012.

The Board of Trustees has approved the 6.5 percent tuition increase, bringing the total undergraduate cost to $33,400.

For more than 120 years, University of La Verne students have taken part in an inexplicable shared culture. It has always been here. It has evolved just as the people involved in it have, but until now, it had not been named: The La Verne Experience.

The Leopards beat the Concordia Tornadoes 8-5 Thursday to advance to the next round of the NCAA West Regional playoffs.

Social media has gained rapid popularity as an instrumental activist tool in recent years with memorable results.

University of La Verne graduate Sean Smith has shown Leopard fans that age is nothing but a number, and has competed with some of the best shot put and discus throwers in SCIAC this track and field season.

University of La Verne choral and chamber singers came together and sang classical, spiritual and pop culture tunes in an uplifting spring concert May 11 in Morgan Auditorium.

Discounts and deals drew a crowd at the semiannual Big Barn Sale on Saturday at Heritage Park.

Bachelor degrees are becoming so common that they are more-or-less equivalent to what a high school diploma used to be. Furthermore, bachelor’s that were once an end point have now become just another step toward the final result.

After a successful baseball season for the University of La Verne, senior outfielder Jacob Ludvik thinks of one response while packing his bags and traveling to Oregon for the NCAA Tourna­ment: We did it.