Author Archives: Hoorig Santikian

David Tran vividly recalls taking frequent childhood trips with his family to Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles. The fourth-year sociology student, son of Chinese immigrants from Vietnam, said they often went to get the herbs and foods they could not find anywhere else in the city. Chinatown was a place that reminded them of their […]

Don Terpstra, a U.S. foreign service officer, served in Chile at the end of Augusto Pinochet’s regime and worked as a U.S. diplomat in Panama when the Panama Canal and Zone reverted back to Panamanian control. But his final appointment serving as a diplomat-in-residence at UCLA, Terpstra said, has been an equally rewarding experience. Terpstra, […]

In a sometimes heated discussion with witty rebuttals, the Bruin Democrats and the Bruin Republicans on Tuesday night debated topics relevant to current national and international politics, including security threats from Iran, filibusters in the U.S. Senate and an individual’s right to die. Representatives from each student group offered varying approaches to address the proliferation […]

Global studies students attended class Wednesday eager to address their questions about current international issues to guest lecturer Warren Christopher. In a lecture and subsequent question-and-answer session, which was open to other students and community members as well, the former secretary of state, who served during former President Bill Clinton’s administration, discussed the actions he […]

A recently proposed plan to reform the academic requirements in Los Angeles high schools may make more students eligible to apply to the University of California. If approved, high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, beginning with freshmen in 2008, will have to complete 15 college preparatory courses, called the “A-G” sequence, […]

Students will mail letters today to the University of California president and treasurer asking them to investigate the university’s financial holdings and relinquish stocks held in companies that do business in Sudan, if such investment is revealed in their investigation. Those participating in this week’s letter-writing campaign, organized by the Darfur Action Committee, are concerned […]

Students, faculty and the campus community expressed varied reactions to Tuesday’s announcement of Pope Benedict XVI as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. While some were disappointed by the election of a conservative pope, others found his expressed commitment to Catholic policies encouraging. Those who were not pleased with the decision said they […]