Have you seen how the Los Angeles Times does it?” “The Orange County Register does this cool thing where …” “It just doesn’t seem very professional.” Far too often in the last few years I heard conversations that included phrases like these. I muttered them myself. Each of the Daily Bruin staffs I was privileged […]
Author Archives: Kelly Rayburn
AIDS institute seeks student relations
High above the bustle of campus, in labs on the top stories of the Factor Building, scientists from the UCLA AIDS Institute conduct some of the world’s most advanced HIV research. And while they work toward making people more resistant to one of the modern world’s great killers, a largely untapped resource in the multi-faceted […]
A Visionary Remembered
Clark Kerr, the University of California president for much of the tumultuous 1960s whose model for higher education redefined the mission and purpose of universities across the country and throughout the world, has died. He was 92. Kerr suffered complications following a fall, and he passed away Monday at his home in El Cerrito. During […]
Wildfire legislation garners concern
As wildfires torched California, advocates of President George Bush’s “Healthy Forest Initiative” renewed calls for tree-thinning measures designed to help prevent damaging forest fires. The House of Representatives and Senate recently passed bills that would lead to thinning by revising U.S. forest policy to make it easier for logging on public land. Bush has indicated […]
Head of UCLA lab discovers previously untraceable steroid
Early in the summer, the United States Anti-Doping Agency sent Dr. Don Catlin a used syringe. The needle was given to the USADA by an anonymous “high profile” track and field coach concerned that athletes might be using a mysterious performance-enhancing drug. It had just a few drops of residue in it. That’s all Catlin […]
From the editor in chief – Dear reader: Please send your constructive, not destructive, criticism
Have you seen the My.UCLA forums lately? They’ve really got something for everyone. Students use them to buy and sell textbooks, look for roommates, debate who the next president should be and argue over the situation in the Middle East. Some use the chatrooms to ask other UCLA students important questions like: “What do the […]
Network helps children with traumatic stress disorder
On Sept. 11, 2001, two of the world’s largest buildings came crashing to the ground. Debris fell from the sky, covering entire blocks of New York City ““Â and some elementary schools. That day, 8,500 students were evacuated from schools near the World Trade Center. But for many of those students, the problems did not end […]