Sixty-three years after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s establishment, some have begun to question its continued necessity, so NATO has appointed briefing officers to explain its current purpose, one of whom visited campus Monday afternoon.
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Chancellor discusses campus concerns
Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams addressed myriad staff concerns such as Chancellor-elect Gene Block, employee compensation, and campus security on Tuesday afternoon during a staff meeting.
15 years later, memory of L.A. riots remains
Though he was not allowed to leave the house for those four days, D’Artagnan Scorza said he remembers watching flames engulf nearby buildings during the L.A. riots when he was 12 years old.
Notable activist urges, advises
Civil rights activist James Lawson met with students and faculty for a discussion Thursday afternoon, where he covered topics including his involvement in civil rights movements, religion, the future of civil justice and nonviolence. Lawson has marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and helped organize lunch counter sit-ins with the Nashville Student Movement. Now, Vanderbilt, […]
Civil rights activist to visit campus for benefit
Once called “the leading nonviolence theorist in the world” by Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. James Lawson plans to speak on campus today at a discussion and later at the 2007 Thurgood Marshall Lecture and Dinner on Law and Human Rights. Lawson, a preeminent civil rights activist, is expected to discuss civil and human […]
Students relying on study aids
Halfway through a dull book for his history class, Ruben Dominguez decided to stop reading. But, unwilling to accept a failing grade on his quiz, he reviewed the rest of the book using SparkNotes and passed his quiz. “Sometimes you don’t have time to read the entire material,” the fourth-year history student said. “So you […]
Bill aims to control student fee levels
In an effort to stabilize increasing fee levels for California students, state assemblymen Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, and Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena, visited UCLA on Friday morning to promote Assembly Bill 1038. The bill, which will be heard Tuesday by the Committee on Higher Education, places University of California and California State University student fees and […]