Author Archives: Brad Greenberg

Some fights can’t be won. University of California Regent Ward Connerly is learning this firsthand. The author of Proposition 54, which, if approved, would prohibit the state from collecting racial data, Connerly has focused much of his life on expunging society of its racial distinctions. After spearheading Proposition 209, which ended racial consideration in California’s […]

Don’t call them another Orange County surf clothing company ““ but they’ll ride that wave until it breaks. The owners of Seven clothing company are proving entreprenuership can exist while being full-time college students. They have formed an underground following in Westwood, and they are using their surf roots to springboard their company into the […]

The Class of 2007 has a lot to look forward to ““ economists expect jobs will actually be available when they graduate. The same cannot be said for last year’s graduates, and may threaten this year’s graduates in their attempts to secure employment after graduation. Sixty-three thousand Californian jobs have vanished since August 2002. And […]

Gina Park wants nothing more than to attend the University of California after graduating high school, but if the UC limits enrollment growth in an attempt to preserve quality, her dreams could be shattered. Park, a senior at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, is the type of student UC admissions officers value. She is […]

The rising costs of public education have entered the limelight during a summer marred by student fee increases ““ but the looming threat for Californians is that thousands may be barred outright from accessing a college education. Last month, the state told the University of California and California State University it would not fully fund […]

A construction worker at the Physics and Astronomy Building work site was released from the hospital Saturday after being pinned by a forklift Aug. 4. The accident happened around 12:30 p.m. when Anthony Roman, 22, an employee of glass contracting company Marc Anthony Glazing, attempted to stabilize the forklift’s load of more than 30 panes […]

With last week’s announcement of a recall election on Oct. 7, Californians will soon have to decide more than just whether or not to oust incumbent Gov. Gray Davis. They will also be voting on the Classification by Race, Ethnicity, Color, or National Origin initiative, which earlier this year qualified for the next statewide election. […]