The letters just keep coming. They span the gamut of emotions: outrage, sympathy, support, indignation. There are hundreds of them. More than a week after controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad appeared in the campus newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Daily Illini’s inboxes are still flooded with mail from readers supporting […]
Author Archives: Charlotte Hsu
Web site fosters writing skills
Sex. Suicide. Memories and Mexico. Beijing. Why “Nobody Loves an Asian Boy.” These are some topics writers have tackled on Heelpress.com, a year-old online writing circle for college students and alumni. Since its launch date last January, the site has grown into a community of about 600 authors from 100 colleges and universities across the […]
Student group’s food sales determined to be illegal
UCLA administrators put an end to a student group’s lunch program this week after they determined the group’s activity constituted an illegal sale of food on campus. Already about 50 students have signed petitions asking the university to allow Nama Kirtan das, a monk of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, to continue serving food […]
A Closer Look: Students take note when class turns political
With UCLA making national headlines after an alumnus offered to pay students for information on “radical professors,” members of the UCLA community are considering what kind of atmosphere professors should create in the classroom. While some recent media attention has focused on the idea of a “culture war” and on the ratio of liberal to […]
Stem cell forum to link science, society
The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics will host a symposium Sunday on the role of embryonic stem cell research in society, with speakers discussing how the science relates to fields including business and law. The forum, titled “Stem Cells: Promise and Peril in Regenerative Medicine,” will involve participants with backgrounds in about 10 different […]
SCIENCE&HEALTH: Center for Society and Genetics broadens intellectual horizons
The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics is a product of both the past and the future. It is at once an acknowledgement of lessons learned from the world’s nuclear history and a mechanism to help society keep up with science in the fast-developing field of genetics. During World War II, there was little discussion […]
Speaker urges support for U.S. effort in Iraq
The war in Iraq is a noble cause, a way to plant the first seed of democracy in the Middle East. If the U.S. loses in Baghdad, it will be because Americans at home lost the will to continue fighting. These are some of the ideas that Dinesh D’Souza, a bestselling author, shared Wednesday evening […]