Author Archives: Joanne Hou

Of the University of California campuses whose police departments use Tasers, the university police department at UCLA has the one of the most flexible policies regarding the use of Tasers. According to UCPD’s Taser use guidelines, a Taser may be used on a person in drive-stun mode “for pain compliance against passive resistors.” Tasers are […]

The top public university in each state is granting more financial aid to students from high-income families than to low-income students, a new report from The Education Trust said. According to the report, the most prestigious public universities of each state, called flagship universities, are reallocating financial aid funds away from low-income students to higher-income […]

MENTORSHIP PANEL Today, 5 p.m. Kerckhoff Grand Salon The Armenian Graduate Students Association, which has run mentorship panels for the last five years, is expanding its program to provide year-round mentoring to undergraduate students interested in UCLA’s graduate schools. The group plans to hold the sixth annual Mentorship Panel today, and it is open to […]

Click the Play button to begin playing the clip. This video requires the free QuickTime plug-in. Download this video directly to your computer. On Election Day, the Daily Bruin conducted exit polls at seven polling places on campus and in Westwood, recording information from 579 UCLA voters ““ and found that UCLA students’ voting patterns […]

Living with no running water and limited electricity, Orit Stieglitz spent a year in southern Israel studying the lives of Bedouin women, Muslims who once wandered the Middle East and are now transitioning from a nomadic lifestyle to one that is more urban and stationary. Stieglitz lived in a village spending her time interviewing and […]

Tariq Ali is not afraid to criticize ““ in fact, he is critical of the capitalist West, communist Soviet Union and all religions. A prolific author, filmmaker and historian who has called the United States the root cause of all the fundamentalist activities in the world, Ali is coming to campus on Thursday to speak […]

In a lecture co-sponsored by UCLA L.O.G.I.C. and Bruins for Israel, Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, discussed the problem presented by what he sees to be Islamic totalitarian regimes ““ and suggested a drastic way of defeating them. Brook said Islamic totalitarian states pose a severe threat to the security of […]