Author Archives: Brian Holbrook

Last month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill designed to help decrease the cost of textbooks for students at California’s public colleges and universities. The bill, Assembly Bill 2477, was authored by Assemblywoman Carol Liu, D-La Cañada Flintridge, and was supported by the California Public Interest Research Group. While many students who’s wallets have recently […]

Republican Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Sen. John Edwards traded sharp jabs during the first and only vice-presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio on Tuesday. Cheney and Edwards fought fiercely over issues ranging from the war in Iraq to Medicare, and traded personal attacks on each other and their running-mates. The most contentious issues involved […]

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s selection of John Edwards as his vice presidential running mate last week has stirred strong reaction from student groups on campus. “Our club is very enthusiastic about the pick. Edwards brings a great deal to the ticket, and I have personally seen a great many more students become interested […]

Student fees at the University of California have been steadily increasing over the last few years due to budget cuts suffered by the university, leading many students to seek financial aid. Because of the state’s budget woes, the UC Board of Regents voted 14-2 in May to increase undergraduate student fees by another $700 for […]

When this year’s graduating seniors first came to UCLA, the state economy was booming, the state budget was in check, and then-Gov. Gray Davis was signing the diplomas of University of California students. Surely, most thought that Davis would be signing diplomas until 2006, when term limits would force him out of office. Few students […]

The vast majority of students offered deferred admission to the University of California through the Guaranteed Transfer Option turned down the university’s offer, with less than 20 percent accepting the transfer option. Because of budget restrictions and decreased funding to the university, 7,600 students were promised acceptance to the UC campus of their choice after […]

Students who signed up for summer classes at the University of California were notified over the weekend of a fee increase of 14 percent for undergraduates and 20 percent for graduate coursework. The students notified had registered for summer sessions at the UC campuses before the regents voted last week to increase student fees. The […]