Author Archives: Charles Proctor

Preceded by chants, cheers, banners and break dancers, over 1,000 protesters took to the streets of Westwood to voice their displeasure with the policies of President Bush on the day he was sworn into office. Bathed in the golden glow of streetlights on a warm January night, protesters from different backgrounds and of all ages […]

President Bush will be sworn into office today in the nation’s capital amid snow, political hoopla and bristling security in the first presidential inauguration since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. And even though many UCLA students may not even be awake in time to see the ceremonies begin ““ Bush will be sworn […]

For Kent Wong and the UCLA Labor Center, this year is starting to play out like a bad case of deja vu. In a year when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed increasing state funding to the University of California by $97.5 million, the labor center is facing a $3.8 million cut that would all but […]

The University of California will receive an increase in state funding this year for limited growth in enrollment and small increases in staff salaries, though students will still see their fees rise by 8 percent, under the budget plan proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday. But the governor is also asking the UC to […]

Praising the work of state politicians and the people, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for “bold new” reforms to the state government to help pull California out of its fiscal woes on Wednesday night. Among the reforms is a proposal to clamp down on state spending and redraw state voting districts. “Last year, we stopped the […]

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa “”mdash; Race is still something almost no South African can avoid thinking about, even though part of the promise of the New South Africa was that race as an issue was supposed to fade. Publicly, the vast majority of South Africans express relief that the segregation of apartheid is over. But privately, […]

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa””mdash;Philile Ntuli sees the effects of HIV/AIDS every time she goes home. A third-year English and politics student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, Ntuli is a resident of Clermont, a township near the port city of Durban. She says almost every week in Clermont there is at least one funeral for […]