Author Archives: Emily Inouye

Sara Pickup has been participating in some form of ROTC since she was a freshman in high school. Now, after eight years in both Junior ROTC in high school and Navy ROTC at UCLA, she is awaiting her commissioning. The ceremony, to be held on June 25, will mark Pickup’s official entrance as an ensign […]

Corporate sponsors offer everything ranging from cash donations to discounts to pairs of socks in exchange for extra advertising with UCLA student groups. Last month, the Center for Student Programming conducted an audit of corporate sponsorships. One of the goals of the audit was to officially recognize what campus student groups receive, in order to […]

Thirty law schools have joined together in a lawsuit against the Department of Defense, but UCLA is steering clear of the fray. The lawsuit addresses the Solomon Amendment, which allows the federal government to withhold funding from schools that restrict military recruiters’ access to their campus. These law schools, part of the Forum for Academic […]

Affirmative action and privatization were the buzzwords at Thursday’s discussion panel at UCLA with Christopher Edley, the dean of the UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Edley, who recently moved to California from Harvard Law School, was in Los Angeles to speak at the Thurgood Marshall Lecture and Dinner on Thursday night, but spent […]

It is late Saturday morning, and the ambush is set. The radio sounds to say the opposition force will be there in a matter of minutes. The only sounds are the chirping of the birds and the rustling of the wind. David Dominguez, a UCLA student and the patrol leader for this ROTC mission simulation, […]

Carrie Bruhl was there almost two years ago when U.S. troops entered Iraq. The UCLA alumna was there because she was flying an Apache Longbow helicopter into combat. Bruhl, who graduated from UCLA in 1999 with a degree in psychobiology, was a member of the army ROTC program and upon graduation was commissioned as a […]

It is not every student who has monitored the medical conditions of U.S. base camps in Afghanistan. But that is precisely what Juliet Kirkpatrick, a fourth-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student, did. After serving for eight months, Kirkpatrick came to UCLA to complete her final two years of schooling, and she is currently a […]