Author Archives: Jennifer Mishory

Audrey Desiderato had just finished the mask removal drill, one of the many skills needed to receive her scuba diving license, when the tsunami passed through. Desiderato, a fourth-year political science and economics student, was vacationing on Phi Phi Island in Thailand. She was on her fourth open-water dive and taking her license test with […]

UCLA’s Student Psychological Services has moved from a dual location to the recently completed Wooden West building. The center, previously located in both the Math Sciences Building and the Center for Health Sciences, provides psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers for the UCLA community, according to the SPS Web site. Dr. Harold Pruett, director of the […]

Beat ‘SC Week, the celebration of UCLA’s rivalry with USC that leads up to the football game on Saturday, will include both traditional activities and a new addition to the week. Put on by a committee under the Student Alumni Association, the week will incorporate various philanthropic events with traditions such as the car smash […]

The Graduate Council will decide whether or not to suspend the Islamic Studies program following a meeting today between the council and members of the Islamic Studies Faculty Advisory Committee. The possible suspension of the Islamic Studies graduate program spurred a public forum Wednesday discussing improvements and adjustments to the interdepartmental program. Present at the […]

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a man either resented as a terrorist or respected as the symbol of the struggle of the Palestinian people, died Wednesday of unknown causes at the age of 75. Arafat, formally known as Mohammed Yasser Abdul-Ra’ouf Qudwa Al-Hussein, was being treated in a military hospital in Paris since Oct. 29. The […]

With 82 percent of UCLA students voting for defeated presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, according to a Daily Bruin exit poll, many students on Wednesday faced the reality of another four years with a president they do not support. “The result is disheartening,” said Erin Ralyea, a second-year French student. The under-30 youth voting bloc […]

Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer retained her position as a California senator in a sweeping victory on Tuesday, capturing 57 percent of the vote to beat out her Republican opponent Bill Jones, who garnered 39 percent. The incumbent Boxer won her third consecutive term in the Senate, earning the right to serve California alongside fellow Democrat […]