As record industry profits continue to fall, and music stores continue to go out of business, record companies have decided to make an example of college students found breaching copyright laws by downloading music. Earlier this month, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a substantial lawsuit against college students alleged to be running file-sharing […]
Author Archives: Brad Greenberg
Students need good habits now to avoid future credit problems
College students often have enormous credit card bills that only seem to get bigger each month. But they are not helpless in their fight against seemingly inescapable debt. “Students should make their payments on time, be more careful about how much debt they take on, and make sure they have insurance,” said Liz Kemper, director […]
Group wants report cards for colleges
The Career College Association is urging that Congress pass legislation that would require colleges and universities to produce annual self-evaluations. The legislation would make the CCA ““ a lobbyist group made up of over 1,100 for-profit and vocational colleges ““ more competitive in the marketplace of intellectual institutions. If the legislation is accepted, schools would […]
2003 admit stats are in
This year’s admission numbers are in, and the prospective class of fall 2003 is made up of better test takers, but fewer underrepresented minorities. UCLA released its admissions figures for fall 2003 on Wednesday, showing that not only did the number of admitted students increase, but so did the average GPA, test scores and number […]
Looters destroy valuable Iraqi artifacts
When Bob Englund, UCLA professor of Assyriology, thinks about the looting of Iraq’s cultural sanctuaries, it saddens his heart. When American soldiers entered Baghdad this past week, their quest to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein’s regime immediately unbridled locals in an undesirable way ““ it gave them the freedom to loot and destroy thousands of […]
State budget cuts could hurt UCLA’s reputation
Along with causing fee hikes, decreasing faculty salaries and increasing class sizes, budget cuts are expected to hurt the esteemed UCLA reputation. At a school known for being a research institution, budget cuts will mean professors teaching more and researching less ““ and less research means less visibility outside Westwood. “(Budget cuts) mean more teaching […]
Greater numbers look to graduate school to ride out economic slump
In response to a weak job market, the numbers of applications to UCLA’s graduate programs are significantly higher in 2003 than in years prior to the current recession. “If you look back at the past 20 or 30 years, when the economy is bad, grad school applications increase,” said Jim Turner, assistant vice chancellor in […]