One of Erin Cavanaugh’s students at her Project Literary volunteer sites brings her his report card every week to show the progress he and Erin have made in their weekly tutoring sessions.
Author Archives: Joanne Hou
Controversial philosopher to dissect issue of poverty
Peter Singer, a renowned and controversial ethicist and philosopher, is set to speak on campus today to share his views about global poverty and people’s obligations in solving this issue.
Tenants protest against lecturer
Holding signs saying “shame on Sussman” and “people over money,” about 40 tenants from apartments owned by UCLA Anderson School of Management Lecturer Eric Sussman staged a protest outside his classroom on Tuesday.
Awards honor student writers
Amid ten desserts from such countries as France and Japan and an international array of music, contestants from 31 countries waited anxiously for the results of the 2007 Harry Kurnitz Creative Writing Awards.
Event probes issues facing immigrant youth
Academics and students from UCLA and beyond gathered for a symposium Thursday on immigrant youth, their education, and political and social activism. The various presenters provided ideas and perspectives from how to improve inner-city immigrant education, to using oral history to engage students, to how students can use covert means to dissent. This event, sponsored […]
First culture show for Hmong Bruins
Through the play “One Culture, Two Generations,” about a contemporary Hmong family in California, the Association of Hmong Students gave over 100 audience members a taste of the Hmong-American experience.
Influential professor dies at 69
The UCLA Department of Spanish lost a leader earlier this month when Carroll B. Johnson, an influential expert on the Spanish Golden Age, passed away from a stroke on April 3 in Chicago at the age of 69. “It was a terrible blow ““ no one was expecting it. He was such a leader and […]