Author Archives: Charles Proctor

The kind of celebration for Israel Independence Day that happened Monday in Bruin Plaza probably would not have happened six years ago. Before the second intifada began in September 2000, the celebration of Israel Independence Day was an event run primarily through Hillel. In 1998, for the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel, students […]

About 20 students met with a prominent member of the state assembly Thursday evening to discuss how to best resist Gov. Schwarzenegger’s proposal to cut funding to outreach programs, which would jeopardize minority enrollment at the university. The informal forum was part of a Day of Action that included all of the University of California. […]

University officials are divided over an e-mail written by UC Board of Regents Chairman John Moores which suggests the University of California is violating state law in its admissions process and calls for an independent review of UC admissions. In the e-mail dated March 25, Moores said the university may be considering race and gender […]

Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, the director of UCLA Hillel who had taken a voluntarily leave of absence pending an investigation into an alleged assault which occurred in October, returned to work last week. Seidler-Feller, a well-known figure in the Los Angeles Jewish community, was the subject of an internal investigation by Hillel after he allegedly kicked […]

As the 2004 presidential race shapes up, President Bush has criticized the presumed Democratic nominee John Kerry of having shifted stances on issues such as the war in Iraq, trade and the Patriot Act. But the story will be different when it comes to education. Kerry, a Massachusetts senator, has a strong and consistent record […]

The day Ahmed Alwishah landed in Iraq was the day the U.S. Army captured Saddam Hussein. Alwishah, a graduate student in the UCLA Near Eastern languages and cultures department, had went to Iraq on Dec. 13, 2003 to visit family he hadn’t seen for over 10 years. He remembered he caught the Iraqis in a […]

At least 108 applicants to the University of California had personal information, including their Social Security numbers, displayed to other applicants due to a display error on a UC Web site, university officials said Friday. A second group of 2,048 applicants may have had their personal information displayed to other students. As of Sunday, university […]