Author Archives: Dmitri Pikman

Fall signifies an increase in education costs for University of California students, an increase that for many also indicates a pressing need to find employment. Yet students are not free in deciding how much time they will be able to work per week, as they are limited by campus-wide restrictions on their working hours. Most […]

Proponents of Proposition 54, also known as the Racial Privacy Initiative, may face an uphill battle after the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the mayor of Los Angeles joined a growing list of officials and educators in opposition to its passage. The proposition, which will appear on the Oct. 7 statewide […]

The University of California might find itself with a lower number of enrolled out-of-state students in the approaching year, as non-resident student fees rise to an all-time high. This increase in student fees is due to the 2003-2004 state budget, recently adopted by the California Legislature, which has led to substantial program cuts, fee hikes […]

Research at the University of California is being slashed by another 10 percent, which comes on the heels of another 10 percent cut already enacted in the 2002-2003 budget. These reductions are a result of the budget adopted this past week by the state Legislature, which will lead to deep cuts in non-instructional programs at […]

Students who want to study abroad in China or Taiwan will have to put those plans on hold because the University of California Education Abroad Program will continue to remain closed in those regions as a response to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. SARS, an acute form of pneumonia, was responsible for more than 800 deaths […]

After two weeks of picketing at the Federal Building, protesters opposed to the current government in Iran were relieved July 2, when the French government released the exiled leader of the Iranian Resistance Movement. The Westwood protest was part of worldwide demonstrations condemning France’s arrest of members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, […]

Things might get a bit crowded at this already burgeoning campus, with UCLA admitting 1,400 more transfer students this fall than it did this past year. Sarah Hawkins, a student who attends school in Montana and is currently taking summer classes at UCLA, considered transferring to UCLA for the fall quarter. “I’m looking for a […]