Author Archives: Adam Foxman

Things may be looking up for UCLA’s embattled Willed Body Program, but it is not out of hot water just yet. One lawsuit against the program has been dismissed, and UCLA will go to court next week seeking an injunction that would allow the university to reopen the program. A second class-action lawsuit is still […]

With stair-covered hills, car-clogged streets, pedestrian-filled walkways and a reputation for theft, UCLA is not exactly a bike-friendly campus. But that could be changing now that the university has begun to act on some of the long-held concerns of the university’s cycling community. Responding to recommendations in the university’s bicycle master plan, which is currently […]

After the initial surprise, Westwood residents were largely unfazed by the discovery of an explosive device in the Midvale Plaza apartment complex Friday. The Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad was able to detonate the device without completely evacuating the building, and though some residents said they were shaken, most said they did not feel […]

For the Class of 2005, graduation will be the last memory of their years at UCLA, but the most powerful one may be from two weeks before the first day of class four years ago. Most students remember vividly the feelings, fears and national unity of Sept. 11, 2001, when New York’s Twin Towers were […]

In an effort to inform the community about the alleged desecration of a Koran at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and a related incident in North Carolina, the Muslim Student Association held a demonstration and distributed copies of the Koran at UCLA on Thursday. Several MSA members spoke briefly in Meyerhoff Park […]

Underneath the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology spreads out like a catacomb, and though UCLA has no undergraduate major in archaeology, some UCLA undergraduates work regularly in the museum’s basement. Nearly every afternoon, Tria Marie Ellison and Jerry Howard work in Professor Tom Wake’s zoo archaeology lab. The third-year anthropology […]

The patchwork of t-shirts strung between the trees in Dickson Plaza gives a stark vision of the reality of rape and abuse. Free from the euphemisms and stereotypes that are often attached to rape and sexual violence, the shirts bear frank descriptions of survivors’ stories. The shirts are made by survivors of sexual violence and […]