Author Archives: Avni Nijhawan

Libraries are closing, majors risk elimination and salaries are being cut. Yet, UCLA administrators are about to embark on an estimated $121 million construction project. UCLA plans to sell $110 million in bonds and tap into UCLA housing reserves accumulated from student housing fees to build new graduate housing. According to Ross Shideler, associate dean of the graduate division, the construction of 504 graduate housing studios is important in garnering new students.

If you eat meat, buy animal products or do animal testing, beware: You’re at risk for being bombarded by fake blood, flour bombs or even fire. Last week, People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals gave an unsuspecting group of children eating at McDonald’s “unhappy meals” filled with rubber chickens dyed with fake blood, meant to criticize the chain’s chicken-killing practices. Last quarter, the Animal Liberation Front took credit for firebombing UCLA researchers’ vehicles, responding to UCLA’s animal testing practices. Last year, Lindsay Lohan was hit by PETA’s flour bombs because she wears fur.

This week more than 100 people died in Nigeria, mostly from machete wounds. Six Christians were killed in Pakistan because of a rumor. And India now has more starving people than all of sub-Saharan Africa.

Dead or alive, Michael Jackson will always be haunted by detail-oriented media.