As campaigning for the Undergraduate Students Association Council elections begins today, all three candidates for president will come together in a debate sponsored by the Daily Bruin and BruinNews29. The event, scheduled to be held in De Neve Auditorium at 7 p.m., is open to the public. Student Power! candidate Jenny Wood, Bruins United candidate […]
Author Archives: Derek Lipkin
Running for the office: USAC elections begin
The navy blue t-shirt with the huge letters “UCLA” across his chest said it all. Big and bold, blue and gold, it embodied Alex Gruenberg’s every stated aspiration of being not only Undergraduate Students Association Council president, but a student at UCLA: an individual who aspires to stand tall for everyone. Gruenberg is currently the […]
[A closer look] Election brings thoughts of change
With the election date fast approaching, UCLA graduate students are preparing to decide who will be their new representatives in the Graduate Students Association for the 2005-2006 school year. The elections will be held from April 27 to May 3, and ballots will be available for submission online via the MyUCLA Web site. This year, […]
[A close look] Experts say consumer education is crucial
Ten years ago, Sandra Bullock’s “The Net” hit theaters and dramatized the life of a woman marred by identity theft. She had lost everything, from credit cards to her driver’s license. The movie may have seemed far-fetched to most people who did not use the Internet as frequently as they do today. But times have […]
Opposition raised to UC Press publication
Norman Finkelstein is releasing a new title through the University of California Press, but before the book has even been released, there has been opposition to its publication. Finkelstein currently teaches political theory at DePaul University in Chicago and is the author of four other titles, all dealing with the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. […]
Former UCLA faculty member dies at 85
Lawrence Robinson, a former physics professor at UCLA, died on March 21, 2005, in Los Angeles. He was 85. Throughout his life, Robinson achieved great success in the field of physical sciences, receiving his B.S. from Virginia Union in 1939 and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Robinson began his tenure at UCLA in […]
[A closer look] Board with many members and student unique
Though the UC Board of Regents is not involved in the everyday operations of the UC system, students at UCLA are affected every day by the decisions handed down by this board. Acting as the governing body of the entire UC system, the regents are members of a board endowed with the “full powers of […]