One of Robert Nakamura’s earliest memories is standing in line for food at the Manzanar internment camp for Japanese Americans. “We were incarcerated for no other reason than we had the face of the enemy,” said Nakamura, a UCLA film and television professor. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on Dec. 7, […]
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“˜Show the Love’ Israel week starts today
“Show the Love” is the theme of this year’s Israel Independence Week at UCLA, a weeklong list of events designed to celebrate Israel’s 56th year of statehood. Today’s festivities in Bruin Plaza include music, dancing, Israeli food, vendors, a DJ and even a charity kissing booth. All the money raised from today’s events will go […]
Student visa program efficacy questioned
UCLA officials are confident in the benefits of a recently implemented system to track international students, though some government agents say the system is not being thoroughly used by customs officials. The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, which is run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is used to keep track of students […]
Palestinian Awareness Week ends
Thursday marked the end of events for Palestine Awareness Week at UCLA, and though for some it was a week of politics and debate, for Deena Rasheed it was an opportunity to let others know about her heritage. “Being Palestinian is kind of like a stigma; for me it was almost a “˜coming out’ kind […]
Palestine Awareness Week kicks off today
Palestine Awareness Week starts today on campus, with different events planned through Thursday. The week will include presentations by professors, journalists and others who have visited this contested area of the Middle East. The weeklong list of events got its official start Saturday, when two distinguished speakers came to UCLA to talk about the Palestinian […]
UCLA to consider using detection device for copyrighted files
New hardware introduced in January and currently used at two universities may put an end to illegal music downloads among college students. The hardware, called CopySense Network Appliance, can be used to identify copyrighted songs and to block those songs from being downloaded on peer-to-peer networks. “Basically it’s the digital equivalent of a human ear. […]
UC Berkeley Web site creates tensions
High school and middle school teachers teaching evolution in their classrooms may find their jobs somewhat easier with the creation of a new Web site by scientists at University of California, Berkeley aimed at aiding teachers in conducting evolution-related studies. But the site, created by the University of California Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley, has […]