Author Archives: Grant Koziol

UCLA Transportation Services will unveil a new program this quarter allowing students to rent cars on an hourly basis. The program will begin by positioning three cars on campus, one each in Lots 2, 6 and 7. Any student, staff or faculty member over age 21 can pay $5 to subscribe to the service. Members […]

Alex Siegel will not be traveling home to Chicago this Thanksgiving. Instead, his parents are flying out to California to see him and his brother, who attends USC, for the weekend, and they will stay with family friends in San Diego. Such is the unusual and often inconvenient and expensive dilemma of an out-of-state student […]

Sigma Alpha Epsilon hosted its first Elimidance philanthropy Tuesday night, which raised $2,500 for the fraternity’s chosen national charity, the Children’s Miracle Network. The event, which was located at El Dorado Cantina in Brentwood, allowed representatives from 10 UCLA sororities to compete against one another in dance competitions. The women were judged in choreography, partner […]

The California Public Interest Research Group is conducting a survey to research the reasons behind increasing textbook prices at universities. The study, which will be published early next year, will contain student, faculty and bookstore surveys regarding textbook sales and prices and will offer price comparisons between textbooks at different universities. CalPIRG hopes the report […]

Los Angeles City Councilmember Jack Weiss kicked off the UCLA School of Law’s government month with a keynote address at the Law Building Wednesday. Weiss, who was elected to city council June 2001 and represents about 258,000 people, addressed a group primarily composed of first-year law students about his experiences as a student of UCLA […]

UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center is publishing a new journal that will focus on a wide array of policy issues concerning Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The journal, called Asian American and Pacific Islander Nexus, publishes research and articles by scholars and practitioners around the United States. Topics the journal addresses include public health, law, […]