Author Archives: Alexa Vaughn

Out of approximately 600 students who applied, 80 were accepted by CBS News last summer, where they worked full time for 10 weeks on various programs while living in either New York City or Washington, D.C., two of the most expensive cities in the world to live in. At the end of it all, there […]

International journalists and professors dissected Winston Churchill’s old saying “history is written by the victors” at a daylong conference examining last summer’s war between Lebanon and Israel on Tuesday. During the conference, “Covering Lebanon: Representation of the 2006 War,” multiple perspectives of last summer’s conflict in Lebanon and Israel ““ including that of international media, […]

Today, many UCLA undergraduate students are coming back from their spring break. Few, however, are coming back from a honeymoon. Irina Capuano, a third-year psychology and Russian studies student, is one of those few. She is returning to class in Westwood this week after a honeymoon in Jamaica with her husband Gregory Capuano, a 2005 […]

The Department of Education has proposed increasing course requirements for the Academic Competitiveness Grant, which is given to Pell Grant recipients who have completed rigorous high school coursework. The department has not released any statements as to why these changes are being suggested, but critics say the changes would be detrimental to students who come […]

After UC Davis ended its membership with the UC Students Association last year, the organization is contemplating ways to improve its visibility, connection and benefits to students. UCSA, the board that unites student governments at UC campuses, started during the era of the Civil Rights Movement and campus protests against the Vietnam War, and requires […]

UCLA students traveling east on Wilshire Boulevard toward downtown Los Angeles may find they have one fewer bus route option by June 2007. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has proposed a closure of one bus route, line 21, which runs from UCLA’s Ackerman turnaround to downtown Los Angeles. Because less than 10 […]

As the days of expensive hardbound Encyclopedia Britannica sets transition into the age of Wikipedia, schools are determining what their relationship to the Web site should be. Educators are currently determining whether to allow students to use Wikipedia in their research while the U.S. Senate is considering restricting interactive Web sites such as Wikipedia at […]