Author Archives: Jennie Herriot

That rambling professor who goes on and on about the importance of utilitarianism may seem no more interesting than John Stuart Mill, but he’s got a secret: from time to time, he serves as an expert witness in court. Professors in a wide variety of departments ““ from statistics to health services ““ lend their […]

A timetable has been set for the final stages of the academic calendar debate, as UCLA governing bodies prepare to make their recommendations by the end of the year upon the request of Chancellor Albert Carnesale. Carnesale asked in December 2002 that the Undergraduate Students Association Council and the Graduate Students Association complete their inquiries […]

If you thought hell would freeze over before you saw a class about J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” offered at UCLA, consider hell a frosty place. Starting last quarter, several eclectic classes are being offered as one-unit seminars geared toward underclassmen as part of the Fiat Lux seminar program. Deriving their name from […]

All across campus this week, students have been filling out those mysterious teaching evaluations that seem to disappear into the depths of UCLA after they are slipped into their equally enigmatic manila envelopes. Evaluations, which allow for individual comments and numerical ratings of a teaching assistant or professor, have a greater impact on an instructor’s […]

While lecturers at the University of California are engaged in an ongoing fight for improved benefits, a number of a lecturers remain seemingly unaffected. Aiming to gain publicity for their demands for better job security, higher salaries, and more respect, over 1,000 lecturers went on strike at five UC campuses last month. But not every […]

Undergraduate students fiercely scribbling in their bluebooks midquarter may be surprised to learn many of their exams are graded by graduate students who didn’t even attend the lectures on which students are being tested. Readers, students hired to assist professors with grading undergraduate papers, exams and homework, provide a necessary service to the university, but […]