Author Archives: Eitan Arom

I’m not particularly good at laying bricks. Yet about a year ago, over spring break, I found myself doing just that for a non-governmental farmer-support organization in rural Nicaragua with 10 other UCLA students – none of whom were any more adept than myself at masonry. These trips – dubbed alternative spring breaks – enjoy […]

The University of California produces a prodigious amount of scholarly research, so much that the UC Office of the President estimated in 2010 that the University generates more than $3 million annually in revenues for the journal Nature. Much of the research that goes into this total is funded by taxpayers, who then face hefty […]

If you’ve ever been to a culture fair, barbecue, speaking engagement, concert or social held by a student group, you were probably benefiting from money that flowed through the Undergraduate Students Association Council.

There are more than 700 groups registered on OrgSync, an online portal that UCLA uses to keep track of student organizations. That’s a sizable figure – about one group for every 30 undergraduate students – representing a remarkably diverse range of interests and activities. Yet for all that diversity – health groups, cultural groups, outdoor […]

There are no equations scrawled on the board for the Economics 173 lecture.