Deanna Jordan was alone in a hospital room in May 2008, with her newborn cradled in her arms. After giving birth to her third child, Kingston, at 22 years old, Jordan realized that she needed to turn her life around. At the time, she was young and unemployed. Jordan was worried how she would be […]
Author Archives: Hee Jae Choi
GSA recap – April 16
The UCLA Graduate Students Association is the voice of graduate students on campus. The association meets for forum every three weeks and takes positions on current issues affecting graduate students. Forum meetings are at 7 p.m. in the Ackerman Viewpoint Lounge. Agenda GSA unanimously approved this year’s election results. Mike Hirshman, a student at the […]
Bruins emotional as Dance Marathon 2014 comes to bittersweet end
The stadium echoed with a deep rumble as students in red T-shirts led a stampede around the dance floor to rally up last-minute morale among the exhausted dancers. They spilled onto the stage and jumped up and down to pulsating beats, as the stadium reverberated with an audible thud in the final hour of Dance […]
UCLA club brings fresh produce to student community
The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Three students stood before half a dozen crates of sun-kissed strawberries and bundles of broccoli, grinning from ear to ear as if they were looking into a treasure chest. “Oh wait, let’s just […]
UCLA, USC student groups call for improved racial climate at town hall
Leaders of Asian Pacific Islander student groups from UCLA and USC demanded that UCLA administrators improve campus racial climate by increasing funding for cultural groups and ethnic studies departments at a town hall meeting on Wednesday. The UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition and two USC student groups, the Asian Pacific American Student Assembly and the Student […]
Westwood family jewelry making business approaches 50th year
Straightening the tortoise shell-rimmed glasses over the bridge of her nose, she eases herself onto the seat in front of her work table and picks up the scalpel with her fair, wrinkled hands to cut the sheet of wax. She adjusts the red rusting lamp that hovers over the desk, which is cluttered with hand-worn […]
Students for Justice in Palestine opens Alex Odeh Memorial Library at UCLA
The library in Kerckhoff 146 blends into the background, but the books on the shelf are crisp, new and hand-picked for a specific reason. The books – which cover novels about Palestine to journals about current events in the Middle Eastern area– are neatly stacked in the single shelf. A wooden desk, a grocery bag […]