Shelma Jun has been functioning on little sleep this past week. And it’s not because of midterms. Jun, a third-year business economics student, is on the executive board responsible for planning the Model United Nations Summit, which will begin at UCLA today. She has been up until 4 a.m. almost every night this week planning […]
Author Archives: Dmitri Pikman
Does open discussion really exist at UCLA?
Many universities around the country have groups of students from different backgrounds who meet regularly to talk about issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and ways to resolve it. UCLA does not. Students at UCLA have attempted to start groups committed to creating a dialogue between Jewish and Muslim students on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian […]
Campus dialogue group in the works
It happened just over a week ago, at the Puzzles eatery on the Hill. Andy Green, a second-year math and economics student, and Adam Greenwald, a second-year history student, were waiting for a friend to buy food. They happened to overhear a conversation between two women who were members of the Muslim Student Association and […]
A closer look: What factors decide who makes the cut?
Andre Rocha had a 3.8 high school grade point average and scored 1170 on his SAT. Kyle Taylor had a 4.5 GPA and a 1440 SAT score. One of them now goes to UCLA while the other got rejected, proving that sheer scores might not be as important as some believe. “I was definitely expecting […]
Spending cap draws criticism
The governor-elect just finished his first official visit to the state Capitol. But even though he has not taken the governor’s office yet, some of his earlier campaign announcements are already drawing criticism. Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger said during his campaign that he was considering asking voters to approve a proposition to limit state spending. The […]
Dershowitz to speak on campus
In an effort to educate the UCLA community about the political situation in the Middle East, the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations will be sponsoring a lecture by Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and renowned author. Dershowitz will be speaking about his new book, “The Case for Israel,” which defends Israel against its […]
EAP students may get a second chance to study in China
Louisa Wang might finally get to study abroad in China. Wang was unable to study in China during the 2002-2003 academic year through the Education Abroad Program (EAP) because it had to close its programs there in response to a worldwide health epidemic. This forced Wang to come up with an alternative to her already-planned […]