Author Archives: Hoorig Santikian

As a United States diplomat, he coordinated foreign policy in numerous African countries and served in Baghdad. As a political adviser, he served in the Clinton administration. As a CEO, he manages an international business corporation. But on Friday, Joseph Wilson came to the “Represent!” event at the UCLA Hammer Museum as an American citizen […]

Register, vote and represent. This was the message at Friday’s event held at the UCLA Hammer Museum. The program focused on promoting student voter participation by giving free admission to students who registered at the event or brought another eligible voter to register. “As UCLA’s museum, we are interested in providing programming that will not […]

Students interested in local and state public policy will now have the opportunity to live and learn in Sacramento. The University of California Center in Sacramento, an experimental education program allowing students to intern at the capitol, will open in winter 2004. “If students want to learn about state and local politics, they can do […]

State senator shares views for all-inclusive health careState Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Los Angeles, spoke Tuesday on campus as part of an event to address problems with the current health care system in California. Kuehl is the author of a legislation currently pending in the State Assembly which aims to provide health care for all California […]

Though the walk to vote for many students was farther than usual, polling stations in the Westwood area experienced consistent voter turnout in Tuesday’s recall election. “We hardly ever have lines. Usually it just trickles in, but we have had long lines all day,” said Richard Patricelli, a field representative for the Los Angeles County […]

Lena Khan, a first-year political science and history student, concentrated intensely as Jordan Fassler, a third-year math student, practiced juggling and passing knives with her. Both students, members of the campus juggling club, were warming up for the Friday afternoon juggling show held at Bruin Plaza. Members juggled tennis balls, donated by Westwood Sporting Goods […]

A survey of professor opinion about the reasons for war with Iraq claims truth to the legendary division between North and South Campus. Majad Dakak, a fourth-year math economics student, conducted a survey of 35 professors from different departments earlier this quarter for his Math 199 course. He found a difference in professors’ views of […]