Author Archives: Bridget Shackelford

A group of more than 100 people gathered Wednesday night to discuss the critical role black people have played at UCLA over the years, the obstacles they have undergone in the past and the challenges they face today. Several distinguished faculty members and UCLA alumni, as well as politically active students were part of the […]

The brother of one of the Israeli soldiers who was kidnapped by Hezbollah this summer spoke on campus Thursday night, discussing the harrowing experience he and his family have gone through in the 78 days since the capture. Gadi Goldwasser, a 23-year-old Israeli, was taking a motorcycle trip around India with friends when he learned […]

Anita Cotter remembers a time when the buildings at UCLA had no air conditioning, when the school ran on a semester system, and when legendary basketball coach John Wooden led the school to 10 NCAA titles in 12 seasons. After all, the school registrar has been here 41 years. She’s been at UCLA for key […]

In the 1970s, white students made up nearly 75 percent of the student body at UCLA, the numbers of black and Hispanic students were on the rise, and Asian American students were less than 10 percent of each class. Now, white students no longer make up the majority of the population, Asian Americans represent the […]

To see the full text of the resolution, click here to download the resolution in Microsoft Word document format. In a 6-4 vote Wednesday night, the undergraduate student government passed a controversial resolution that called for peace between Israel and Lebanon. The resolution also criticized both Israel and Hezbollah, a political organization within Lebanon that […]

By Bridget Shackelford Bruin contributor bshackelford@media.ucla.edu Guillermo Hernandez, a UCLA Spanish professor and director emeritus of the Chicano Studies Research Center, died in Mexico City on July 16. He was 66. Hernandez died of a heart attack in his hotel room while on a field trip with students from a four-week summer school program in […]

Due to the domestic and international situation in the post-Sept. 11 world, university students’ interest in Middle Eastern studies has dramatically increased in the past five years, as jobs in that field have also become more popular. James Gelvin, a professor of history who focuses on the modern Middle East, said the expansion of this […]