Councilman Jack Weiss was re-election to the Los Angeles Fifth District City Council Tuesday night in the Los Angeles city elections. With about 76 percent of the vote ““ 10,011 votes total ““ Weiss led his challengers David Vahedi and Gregory Martayan in the polls from the start of the night. As of 11 p.m. […]
Author Archives: Derek Lipkin
Schools collaborate over women’s studies
When someone thinks about UCLA and the University of Southern California, they think rivalry, Bruins and Trojans fighting for bragging rights ““ not these women. At an event cosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the USC Center for Feminist Research, graduate students from across the nation came together in an […]
Chancellor hosts forum
The students asked him about Sudan. They asked him about ethnic studies research centers. They asked him about the nuclear laboratory in Los Alamos. They even asked him if he listened to UCLAradio.com or owned an iPod. Students and faculty met yesterday with Chancellor Albert Carnesale for an hour in a forum to ask questions […]
Films to give attention to local human rights issues
The term “sweatshop” is usually associated with the image of small factories filled with overworked and underpaid individuals. It is hard for many to imagine that a sweatshop is right down the street, maybe on Wilshire or Pico, in the heart of the greater Los Angeles area. Despite any disbelief from the general public, this […]