Once a week, the Poker Club at UCLA meets off campus to discuss strategy, look at uncommon hands and, of course, play some poker.
Author Archives: Jake Greenberg
Law permits access to student records
UCLA can now release students’ personal information to state and local agencies interested in analyzing the education system because of a federal policy change in the way universities archive data.
Organizer of Egyptian revolution encourages students to participate in social movements
Ahmed Maher, a key player in the January revolution in Egypt, encouraged students to participate in popular social movements Tuesday in a private lunch with selected members of the UCLA community.
UCLA Department of Mathematics teams up with LAPD to combat gang crime
The Los Angeles Police Department and the UCLA Department of Mathematics have teamed up to use quantitative analysis and computer programming to help solve ongoing criminal investigations.
Obama announces new program to consolidate student loans
President Barack Obama announced a plan to reduce monthly payments for more than 1.6 million current college students and borrowers Wednesday, two weeks after the New York Federal Reserve Bank announced that student debt has surpassed the national credit card debt.
Depending on specific revenue figures, Gov. Jerry Brown may be forced to make trigger cuts to state education funds
California legislators may soon have to discuss the possibility of further cuts to state-funded programs, including the University of California, based on the state’s failure to meet revenue projections for the past three months.
Phones raise privacy fears
To conduct a small experiment, Tim Groeling turned off his iPhone’s GPS feature during a business trip to Canada.