Since 1919
Over a thousand dancers counted down as 11 a.m. approached: “Five, four, three, two, one.”
Then everyone stood up on the dance floor, began cheering, raising their hands, jumping up and down. “Let’s Get it Started” by the Black Eyed Peas blasted into Ackerman Grand Ballroom, and the 10th Annual Dance Marathon began.
Sometimes Michael Marra can barely lift open his eyelids.
They weigh down, leaving him with only a slit of vision, a slice of his surroundings.
It’s a casualty of the cancer that’s worn down his body for two and a half years over 11 cycles of chemotherapy.
MACLOVIO ROJAS, MEXICO “”mdash; They’d heard of a small community in Mexico, nestled close to the border and somewhere along the road to Tecate.
As snippets of songs from clarinets, basses and violins blend and clash, eighth-grader Elida Flores glides her bow across the strings of her instrument. Her tutor, fourth-year psychobiology student Connie Yang, sings the corresponding notes and taps her foot to the beat.
Tesfanesh and Elsae Seplow were born in an Ethiopian village, where their family slept under the same thatched roof as cows and pigs.
Most students are 18 years old when they first move into the dorms, but Hana Cho was just shy of 18 months old.
Antero Garcia teaches at a high school in the heart of Los Angeles, where bomb threats or fights on campus can disrupt the pulse of everyday academic life.
