Author Archives: Charlotte Hsu

Armed with pepper spray, Joseph Coe walks across a dark, deserted campus and stays out past 1 a.m. on school nights for his job ““ a job that he loves. As part of a squad of community service officers, Coe, a fourth-year civil engineering student, is paid for duties ranging from patrolling campus buildings in […]

For students enjoying dorm life, keeping the door open is convenient and a gesture of hospitality. But for Jolieba Jackson, it meant more than that ““ it cost Jackson the brand-new iBook computer she received as a graduation present this past summer. Away from home, students living on their own for the first time must […]

Graduating Anderson MBA students are looking back on their business school memories and forward to job opportunities in service sectors that are less than robust in a struggling economy. As in past years, investment banking and management consulting are the most popular industries for MBA students securing post-graduation jobs, said Jon Kaplan, associate director of […]

Saplings planted in Westwood to replace dying Aleppo pine trees have been vandalized over the past few months, after a two-year effort to replant the trees. Alii Ontiki, a landscaper and homeowner who has lived in Westwood since 1978, said he witnessed party-goers vandalizing the newly planted saplings on more than one occasion. “They get […]

Carlos Moore, resident scholar at the Universidade do Estado da Bahia, discussed race relations in Latin America on Monday, presenting two different models of race relations to UCLA students and members of the community. Moore was invited to speak at UCLA because students need to be aware of what is happening in countries outside the […]

While many students occasionally put a few dollars down to bet on their favorite sports teams, other students are raising the stakes and taking betting to a higher level. Since the 1998 passage of Proposition 5 in California, people 18 and over, including many UCLA students, have gambled at casinos built on Indian tribal land. […]

A glance at the results might indicate a commanding victory for the Students First! slate, which won five of six Undergraduate Students Associated Council runoff election races ““ but in more than a few cases, the margin of victory was slim. SF! representatives will hold eight out of a total of 13 USAC council positions […]