A few days a week, Jim Newton works in a quiet office in Rolfe Hall that doesn’t belong to him. The room displays the name of a different professor on its door and the desk he uses isn’t his own. On other days, he sits in a smaller room in one of the more frenetic […]
Author Archives: Jeong Park
Winter campus closure forces employees to take unpaid furloughs
Some UCLA staff are voicing concerns that they are forced to take four days of unpaid furloughs during winter break, when campus closes for less than two weeks to save on utility costs. As usual, most of the university will close for 12 days between Dec. 24 and Jan. 4. Eight of those days are […]
UC survey of doctoral graduates looks at debt, degree satisfaction
About 40 percent of University of California alumni with doctoral degrees who graduated in the late 2000s reported student loan debt when they graduated, according to a systemwide survey released Monday. The survey, which the University conducted for the first time this year, looked at individuals who earned doctoral degrees from the University within the […]
Coalition supporting IGNITE campaign pushes for Proposition 47
As part of a student-led campaign, members of a newly formed coalition at UCLA are pushing to pass a proposition in the upcoming midterm election that would reduce sentences for minor crimes. UCLA student groups rallying around the Invest in Graduation Not Incarceration, Transform Education, or IGNITE, campaign held a meeting in Ackerman Union on […]
Voter registration week aims to boost turnout for midterm election
The undergraduate student government is hosting an event every day this week to register students to vote and educate the community about the upcoming midterm election. The week’s events include a debate between student group members, a forum between candidates and students and an informational session about the basics of the election. By attending at […]
Students garner support to give campaigns push for midterm election
Francisco Castaneda’s goal for Thursday was just getting one person to pledge support for Ben Allen, a candidate for state Senate. No one picked up Castaneda’s first phone call, so he left a voicemail. There were about 17,000 more calls to make for the campaign. “Sometimes, you don’t even get one ‘yes,’” said Castaneda, a […]
Petition claims AMCHA’s efforts limit academic freedom
Several UCLA professors signed a petition calling for a pro-Israel organization to stop what they perceive to be a censoring of classes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, claiming the organization has restricted academic freedom on campus. David Myers, chair of the UCLA Department of History who co-authored the petition with Steven Zipperstein, a professor at Stanford, […]