Author Archives: Ari Bloomekatz

A computer hacker gained access to at least 600,000 Californians’ Social Security numbers that were on a UC Berkeley professor’s computer, officials said Wednesday. Berkeley officials said they were first informed of the breach on Sept. 17. The computer violation was one of the largest in their school’s history. “We have no way of knowing […]

The defense for DeShawn Stringer, the man accused of raping a UCLA student nearly two years ago, rested its case Monday, and lawyers for both sides are scheduled for closing arguments today. Stringer is accused of raping the student while on a field trip with Carson High School in December 2002. Frank Williams, the lead […]

After leaving her “Introduction to LGBT Studies” class Thursday, Celisse Romero, a third-year political science and anthropology student, said she was learning a lot about herself and her history. “I’m a lesbian woman. I’m interested in studying the oppression that we’ve gone through and the accomplishments we’ve made,” Romero said. UCLA’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and […]

The attorney prosecuting DeShawn Stringer, who is accused of raping a UCLA student nearly two years ago, said he will rest today and let the defense begin its case. Stringer is accused of raping the student while on a field trip to the university with Carson High School in December 2002. A jury deadlocked in […]

Christine Treibel’s parents thought her sexuality was a sin. So at the age of 14, while she had an innocent crush on the actress who played Audrey from the play Little Shop of Horrors, one of her thoughts was, “I’m going to hell.” Treibel, a 22-year-old women’s studies student, said that was the first time […]

Almost exactly a month after rocks shattered the windows of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center in what police called a hate crime, National Coming Out Week begins today, themed “Coming together, Coming out!” This year’s events hold special importance in light of the attacks, said chairperson of the Queer Alliance Paymon Ebrahimzadeh, and […]

The student who said she was raped in her De Neve dorm room nearly two years ago was consistent with her story from the first trial during testimony at the retrial Wednesday and Thursday, said her attorney Scott Millington. A jury was hung over four months ago when DeShawn Stringer, Chuwan Anthony and Jamar Dawson […]