Westwood will never be the true college town that many of us envisioned upon entering UCLA. There’s not a single venue that allows dancing, only a handful of locations that have a full bar, no poetry readings in coffee shops, and not a single pool table to be found. Instead, we’re besieged by hair salons […]
Author Archives: Colleen Honigsberg
Bring opinions to The Bruin
The most common complaint I hear about the Daily Bruin is that it’s not really a student paper. “It never covers anything I care about,” moaned one student. “It’s too uptight,” griped another, “It just doesn’t seem very “˜collegey.’ So many of the stories aren’t even written by UCLA students.” To make it clear once […]
Medical student enlists aid of undergrads to research brain tumors
After graduating from Stanford at age 19 in 1995, Houman Hemmati enrolled at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, where he now conducts groundbreaking research with pediatric brain tumors. As a student in the joint master’s/doctorate program shared by UCLA and the California Institute of Technology, Hemmati is finishing up his seventh and last […]
Job market improves for graduating seniors
There’s hope for graduating seniors. Employers expect to hire 11.2 percent more graduating seniors from the Class of 2004 than the Class of 2003, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The percentage is not uniform throughout the United States, but instead ranges in each geographic region and industry. The Northeast has a […]
Competition rewards entrepreneurs
From mold removal to the wants of teenage boys, this year’s Knapp Venture Competition covered a broad base of human interests. The annual competition offers UCLA Anderson School of Management students a chance to present their business plan in front of a group of entrepreneurial judges. The groups compete for a total of $20,000. The […]
A closer look: State’s affirmative action ban still called into question
With a recent decrease in minority enrollment at UCLA, some students and educators are wondering if the state made the right decision when it voted to end affirmative action in 1996. After the passing of the California Civil Rights Initiative, commonly known as Proposition 209 ““ which ended the consideration of race in admissions and […]
Cracking down on file-sharing
The increasing connectivity capabilities of the Internet have created a breeding ground for illegal file-sharing and potential copyright infringement. This is especially the case in college dorms that utilize the fastest local area network connections. “With the Internet, there are just so many information and transfer possibilities,” said first-year computer science student Angie Yen. “There’s […]