Author Archives: Anthony Pesce

When Ray came to UCLA, his first goal was to start a high-stakes underground poker ring in the dorms. He started playing last year, and with the help of a Facebook group, what started as a handful of players expanded to numerous regulars over a few months. Over the past two years, playing poker for […]

With the aim of promoting cultural diversity and changing social perceptions about Islam, the UCLA Muslim Students Association is putting on Islamic Awareness Week. Leyla Ozgur, an Islamic studies graduate student, gave a lecture Monday night titled “Diversity of Tongues and Cultures,” which highlighted diversity within the Islamic faith. The presentation was part of the […]

In what is becoming a UCLA tradition, this year’s graduating class of 2006 has decided to contribute a sum of money to the UCLA Fund as their departing gift. The class of 2003 is the most recent class to give a more specific gift to the school, funding lifetime UCLA e-mail accounts for alumni. This […]

As a live performer Clark attracts an eclectic and adoring audience. Standing, with all four of his legs, on an amplified metal platform chewing and banging tin cans, the most famous goat on the experimental music scene makes, literally, noise. Clark, along with a host of other emerging artists, is the latest on a new […]

Students wanting to study in France, Denmark, Australia and Italy may now need to consider alternate courses of study, as some Education Abroad Programs in these countries have been cut or postponed. Due to recent EAP budget limitations, five programs have been cancelled and two postponed at least through the 2006-2007 academic year. The cancellations […]

The Rev. James Lawson, a renowned nonviolent civil rights activist, spoke Tuesday about the current status of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and its future direction and shape. Lawson was a leader of the sit-in movement of the 1960s and one of the organizers of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker Labor Strike. He spoke to […]

The UC Office of the President announced Tuesday it has reached a new wage contract with a union representing University of California technical employees and research support professionals that has solved many of the problems that have plagued negotiations over the past two years. Workers from University Professional and Technical Employees will be receiving approximately […]