When Jordan Pearson arrived at UCLA from New Zealand at the beginning of winter quarter, he noticed a lot of homeless people on the streets of Westwood. Being unaccustomed to such visible poverty, he began thinking that New Zealand was a better place to live. Laura Ceron, an Italian student who previously spent six months […]
Author Archives: Adam Foxman
Graduates look back
UCLA bills itself as a place “where great futures begin,” and as the graduating Class of 2004 prepares to begin the next stage of their futures, their memories are too varied to categorize. The Daily Bruin asked 64 graduating seniors seven questions about what they remember about their time at UCLA. Students overwhelmingly remembered Sept. […]
Vacant spots on UC Board of Regents raise questions, concerns
The UC Board of Regents decide how much students need to pay to keep the university afloat, how people will be admitted to the university and why. But the regents table has been two members short since Dolores Huerta and John Davies finished their terms in January, and as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger puts off appointing […]
Bill unlikely to affect UC race policy
The University of California Board of Regents and university officials say a bill which would allow the consideration of race in admissions would probably not affect the UC, even if it passed. Assembly Bill 2387, which was passed from the California Assembly to the state Senate on May 26, would allow public universities to consider […]
Alum named student regent
Correction Appended As student fees continue to increase drastically, words like “outreach” and “accessibility” spread across the University of California like wildfire, and are hot enough to ignite instant debate. The May 20 nomination of Adam Rosenthal ““ a second-year law student at UC Davis and UCLA alumnus ““ as the student regent for 2005-2006 […]
Hike in UC fees ok'd
SAN FRANCISCO ““”“ With a minimum of fuss, the regents of the University of California approved student fee increases at their meeting Thursday. Fees will increase to the levels described in the governor’s budget compact with the UC: 20 percent for graduate students, 10 percent for professional students and 14 percent for undergraduates, all in […]
UC poll shows faculty favor lab bids
SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; Faculty members of the University of California voted nearly three to one in an electronic poll that the UC should bid to keep stewardship of the Department of Energy Labs when bidding begins later this year. The two-week long survey was intended to determine what UC faculty members thought about the university […]