Author Archives: Anthony Pesce

SACRAMENTO “”mdash; This weekend hundreds of University of California students from across the state gathered in Sacramento for an annual conference to learn how to lobby the state legislature on behalf of their peers. The theme of this year’s conference was “The Price is WRONG: Fund Higher Education, Fund the Future!” Attendees learned about issues […]

Students have a plethora of gadgets available to keep them hip to the latest trends and in contact with their buddies, but some students and professors are beginning to notice devices such as iPods, portable video games and laptops making their way into the classroom. Though new technology can offer students opportunities to take better […]

As an undergraduate, Scott Waugh spent a year studying at UCLA and enjoyed his time here so much he ended up transferring permanently from Princeton. Decades later Waugh is still here, and after having been a student, professor and administrator, he is temporarily taking on the position of executive vice chancellor and provost. Waugh is […]

Amy Woolington loved to dance, and friends and family members said she worked to bring out that same sort of enthusiasm in everyone around her. She will be remembered by those who knew her as someone who was passionate about her life and who pushed others to pursue what made them happy. Woolington died in […]

The UC Santa Barbara undergraduate student government passed a resolution Wednesday that could freeze funding for the campus newspaper, the Daily Nexus ““ a move that may be illegal. Associated Students Legislative Council officers passed the resolution after The Nexus ran an advertisement from Conquest Student Housing, a non-university housing provider at UC Santa Barbara […]

Sherman Austin said he landed in federal prison for a year for starting an anarchist Web site and had been followed by federal agents and police for years before that. Austin, the first U.S. citizen to be prosecuted under a 1997 law banning the distribution of bomb-making information for the purpose of committing a crime, […]