Author Archives: Julia Erlandson

Candidates and groups spent hours on endorsements this week, but if history is any indication, what the candidates actually said may have little bearing on which endorsements they receive.

During the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, students at San Francisco State University walked out of class every day for five months to push for greater integration and acceptance of minority groups on campus.

Nick Salcedo remembers hearing bullets whiz by him ““ “they sound exactly like they do in the movies” ““ and having a rocket-propelled grenade shot directly at him while serving in Iraq.

Dina Mahmood, a third-year geography and environmental sciences student, has not been back to her family’s native Iraq since the war began, but she came close while visiting relatives in Syria this summer.

Surrounded by groups of people heading to class or lunch, a group of students gathers five times a day to pray behind Kerckhoff Hall.

It’s a common adage among politicians and pundits: Young people don’t vote.

The home of a UCLA researcher was attacked for the second time in four months ““ likely by animal rights activists, university and law enforcement officials said Tuesday.