Author Archives: Joanne Hou

Pink blossoms on youthful green leaves twirl and spin among branches. As they dance, sometimes wildly and other times orderly, the leaves darken into the rich green of summer, then to the red and gold of fall, and finally to the bare branches of winter. This is “Dervish,” a digital animation artwork piece by UCLA […]

Amid chants of “Knowledge! Power!” “Student power!” and “Access granted!” more than 100 students gathered for a rally in Myerhoff Park on Wednesday. The noon rally focused on the decreasing number of black and underrepresented minority students being admitted to UCLA. Students of different ethnicities chanted for increasing underrepresented minority enrollment, which the protestors said […]

Professors in some classes aim to make their lectures more interactive with the introduction of clickers in the classroom. The clicker is a remote control-like keypad with numbers that students can press to transmit their responses to a receiver connected to the professor’s computer. Starting this quarter, students taking Life Science 1 and some other […]

UCLA is not the only school to make changes in recent weeks to its admission process that are aimed at promoting more fairness in evaluating applicants. While UCLA has altered the way it reads applications, other schools are attempting to increase diversity by other means. Harvard University, Princeton University and the University of Virginia announced […]

Christina Chung is going to medical school. Ben Shea plans to work instead of continuing his education. Both are graduating and said they think more students are going to graduate school now than in the past. But statistical data collected by UCLA and the U.S. Census Bureau suggests that the number of students attending graduate […]

When Alisha Flecky, a third-year transfer student in global studies, came to UCLA earlier this year, she made a list of all the majors she would be interested in pursuing and discovered that global studies encompassed classes from all the disciplines she had listed. In its first year of existence, the global studies interdepartmental program […]

Two new minors set to begin this fall are aimed at giving students an opportunity to get hands-on experience in organizations dealing with public service and problems concerning Southern California. Civic engagement and urban and regional studies minors are both interdisciplinary and open to students of all majors. The civic-engagement minor, which is offered by […]