Author Archives: Anthony Pesce

SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; Talk of student wellness, academic freedom and nuclear research dominated the discussion at last week’s UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco. On Sept. 20, the regents decided to bid for the management of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, which contributes to the development of nuclear weapons. The lab’s Web site […]

UCLA could be changing the way it reads and scores applications for admission as soon as December, switching to a system that places more emphasis on non-academic achievements. This change in admissions policy is partly in response to declining numbers of underrepresented minority admits, but also comes at the 10th anniversary of Proposition 209, said […]

This academic year, the Graduate Students Association plans to focus on myriad issues, including student representation on campus committees and student programming. But No. 1 on the officers’ list of priorities is developing a graduate student writing center. During the spring elections last year, graduate students approved a fee referendum to fund a writing center. […]

SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; The UC Board of Regents voted on executive compensation for the first time in open session and agreed to settle two lawsuits against Enron during its meeting Thursday. On Tuesday, Regent Chairman Gerald Parsky announced that from now on the University of California regents will vote on all executive compensation issues in […]

SAN FRANCISCO “”mdash; At today’s UC Board of Regents meeting, the regents discussed various topics, including a student mental health report and tobacco-industry funding of university research. The meeting opened with an approval for the University of California to bid for management of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which contributes to the development of nuclear […]

Students applying for admission to UCLA in the fall may be faced with an entirely new admissions process in which university officials read a student’s entire application rather than scoring individual sections separately. An Academic Senate committee recently approved a proposal to change the way UCLA’s applications are read and scored, partly in an effort […]

Several Undergraduate Students Association Council members walked out of a meeting Wednesday night, breaking the quorum and suspending business for more than a week. Council members affiliated with the Students First! slate walked out of the meeting because they questioned the qualifications of several of the students USAC President Marwa Kaisey planned to appoint to […]