Author Archives: Jackie Barber

Voices recounting tragic tales and staggering death tolls projected over a loudspeaker from Meyerhoff Park on Tuesday as speakers from several human rights groups promoted the Armenian Student Association’s Genocide Awareness Month, taking place all of April. Speakers talked about five different conflicts: the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, the Rwandan Genocide, and […]

Khaled Abu Toameh, an international journalist living in Jerusalem, gave a lecture at the UCLA School of Law on Tuesday evening where he presented his perspective as an Arab Israeli man with a Palestinian mother and Israeli father. He spoke on his experience as a journalist in the Middle East, recent intra-Palestinian violence in the […]

Undergraduate students labor for four or five years and pay tens of thousands of dollars all to be handed a degree, but what these coveted certificates actually give students varies greatly. Bachelor’s degrees often reward graduates with two basic sets of opportunities: a job or admission to graduate school. But Tiffany Duong, an international development […]

Fake identification card in hand and ready to party, Andrew dropped by his usual store to stock up on liquor. “I’ve been using it at this store for a while, and for some reason that night I got a little nervous and I told them I was 24 instead of the 23 age that is […]

While the number of American students studying abroad has swelled in recent years, it seems Bruins ““ and University of California students in general ““ may not be as eager to leap into a foreign culture for university course credit. Open Doors 2006, the Institute of International Education’s annual report on study abroad, noted a […]

Surrounded by sorority girls and feeling uncomfortable displaying affection toward his long-time partner, Richard Passmore-Ramirez did not feel like a perfect match rushing a Latino fraternity of prominently straight membership, he said. So this year the third-year Chicana/o studies student, who is openly gay, set out to reactivate the UCLA chapter of Delta Lambda Phi, […]

Swastikas and speeches filled with racial slurs greet anyone who walks through the Kerckhoff Art Gallery this week, where the Undergraduate Students Association Council has set up an exhibit on hate crime as part of its Campus Safety Awareness Week. The exhibit features images and articles depicting and discussing hate crimes. Incidents referred to in […]