Author Archives: Charles Proctor

UCLA will probably not turn over students’ private information to a student database being compiled by the federal government for military recruitment purposes unless it is served with a court order, a university official said. Bob Naples, the dean of students, cited university policies governing the release of the student records and the Family Educational […]

A swastika with a slash through it was painted onto the front of the Jewish co-op on Landfair Avenue on Tuesday. The swastika was scrawled onto the front wall of the co-op sometime between 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., according to residents of the building. The swastika appears to have been painted in a different […]

Current events in the Israel-Palestine region may once again slip into the campus limelight this week with a series of events that are intended to illuminate the humanity and the plight of the Palestinian people. Justice for Palestine Week, which begins this afternoon with spoken word performances in Meyerhoff Park, will feature speakers and displays […]

The late Pope John Paul II was a leader to over a billion people and countless communities worldwide. But to the Polish community, he was more than a religious figure ““ he was also one of their greatest native sons. Born and raised in Poland, John Paul’s term in the Vatican was a source of […]

Monday’s Superior Court decision in San Francisco that overturned state laws against same-sex marriage could have a strong impact on similar court cases heard in other states, legal experts say. According to the ruling, two state laws that prohibit same-sex marriage “cannot be justified simply because such constitutional violation has become traditional,” San Francisco County […]

Free speech should be dominant in academia, said Chancellor Albert Carnesale, in light of recent events at several colleges that have tested the leeway students and faculty have to express their opinions. “In examining things like (free speech) … you bend over backward in favor of free speech,” Carnesale said in his quarterly conference with […]

Rain continued to pummel the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, and a strong storm system is expected to arrive today which could bring high winds and another inch of rain on top of already soaked Angelenos. Though the rain has washed out roads caused mudslides, and killed nine people around Southern California, the UCLA campus […]