Rick Ramirez remembered walking down the streets of Westwood nine years ago, distraught over his son’s emergency open-heart surgery, when he came across Stan’s Donuts. As he walked through door, the owner smiled at him and asked him how he was – Stan Berman’s kindness and positive personality made Ramirez think that everything was going […]
Author Archives: Julia Raven
Bruin’s journey unearths cultural roots
With only an old photograph and her grandfather’s birth certificate, Janine Berridge walked the dusty, unfamiliar streets of Gambia to find the family she had never met. She traveled to Gambia to find where her grandfather came from as a stowaway on a ship. Her grandfather, Ebrahim “Dodou” N’jie, was 20 or 21 years old […]
Council connects UCLA Hill’s globally diverse residents
It was difficult for the second-year mathematics and economics student to adjust to college life in the United States, far away from her family in Mumbai, India. Events with the Hill’s Global Connections Council, like an international movie night, helped Aditi Agrawal connect with students from other cultures. The 12-member Global Connections Council was founded […]
Faculty Research Lecture focuses on social, labor policy
A UCLA law professor discussed the shrinking middle class and trouble with short-term employment in a campus lecture Wednesday evening. Katherine Stone addressed the effects of the “Digital Era” on the modern economy and work place, touching on factors such as short-term employment, the degradation of unions and the growing separation between classes. Stone teaches […]
Revised rainy day fund proposes increased reserves
California Gov. Jerry Brown called for a special state legislature session next week to press for support for his revised reserve fund ballot proposal. Four years ago, the legislature approved a proposal for a new rainy day fund to be on the November 2014 ballot. Brown is now pitching a revised reserve fund that would […]
Students celebrate cultural connections at UCLA Holi festival
Through dancing and participating in the Holi festival on Saturday, Naeha Lakshmanan found UCLA ties to a familiar culture. The second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student performed at Holi at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center on Saturday with the rest of her South Asian dance team. The team, UCLA Abhinaya, performed Bharatanatyam, a type […]
UCLA’s Taiwanese American Union hosts annual culture event
He left his family in Taiwan four years ago to attend boarding school in Connecticut and an American college. Though he is still far from home, first-year statistics student Darren Ho said he has found ways to stay connected to the culture by joining the Taiwanese American Union and performing in its annual culture show […]