Author Archives: Colleen Honigsberg

UCLA student Jeanette Canela had trouble signing up for courses this quarter ““ not because there was no room for her to enroll ““ but because the classes she needed for her major were simply not offered. The classes that Canela, a third-year international development studies student, needs are not offered every quarter ““ a […]

Though most students look forward to graduation, fifth-year student Kendrick Lo is doing all he can to stay an extra quarter at UCLA. Lo is five classes away from graduating with a double major in psychology and economics, but will instead graduate with only a degree in economics because he is over his unit limit. […]

In the University of California system, UCLA ““ one the most diverse campuses in the system ““ is the only campus that does not require students to fulfill a diversity requirement to graduate. However, if a proposal making its way through the Academic Senate is approved this year, this may change. The proposal would require […]

Some students with priority enrollment did not get as much of a priority as they would have liked this past week. To assure that seniors will graduate on time, the economics department closed all of its classes for priority enrollment so seniors would get first priority instead. “We’ve been having trouble with our seniors graduating […]

Students choosing their classes for winter quarter may notice a few changes in the schedule from last quarter. Specifically, new seminar and tutorial courses have been added, and the numbering of all seminar and tutorial courses will be uniform across departments. The seminars were added to give students more of an opportunity to interact with […]

American veterans have opinions that vary just as much as the general population when talking about whether U.S. soldiers should return home from Iraq for their safety and when discussing Operation Iraqi Freedom in general.  Most veterans, like most Americans, seem to think U.S. forces should remain in Iraq, even though the soldiers are at […]

After the UCLA faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of retaining the quarter system rather than switching to semesters this past spring, campus officials say the quarter v. semester debate is over for the time being. Chancellor Albert Carnesale approved retaining the quarter system in a letter to Duncan Lindsey, chairman of the Academic Senate. The […]