Author Archives: Abigail Palmer

After speaking about his plans for the year, his goals for the UCLA Academic Senate and major issues going on at UCLA, Vivek Shetty leaned forward to emphasize one more point. The new 2006-2007 chairman of the Academic Senate said his first goal is to uphold the original meaning of the word “university” by fostering […]

For the past five years, professors at UCLA said they have seen demand for research relating to Sept. 11 dramatically increase, and some have changed their focus accordingly. Federal funding through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Human and Health Services has increased for research related to Sept. 11, and […]

Mahyar Nili’s passion for the connection between art and feminism brought her to UCLA from Santa Monica College three years ago. Since then, the fifth-year art student has scoured the campus for every opportunity for academic growth. She said she has grown personally and academically in her time at UCLA and is now looking to […]

Five years ago, Jennifer Propper was in the car on her way to high school, listening to a local radio station, when she heard the DJ announce that two planes had hit the World Trade Center. Like many others across the nation, Propper was confused when she first heard the news. She didn’t fully realize […]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an agreement last Monday with Democratic leaders of the legislature to raise the state minimum wage almost 20 percent by January of 2008. If the agreement is passed by the legislature, the state minimum wage will increase from the current rate of $6.75 an hour to $7.50 by January 2007, and […]

Until last Thursday, there were nine planets in Earth’s solar system. But with a word from the International Astronomical Union, the sole body charged with making astronomical decisions, that number was reduced to eight. In a meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, last week, the body voted nearly unanimously to demote Pluto to a “dwarf planet” […]

Armed with a clipboard, compass, tape and grid paper, UCLA professor Craig Manning and a team of geologists mapped the outcroppings of a peninsula on Akilia Island in West Greenland. The geologists hoped to find evidence to support their theory that life existed on Earth far earlier than conventional wisdom teaches. By studying rock on […]