Normalcy. One year ago today the nation became obsessed with this idea, after terrorizing hijackers murdered thousands and crumbled the country’s strongest symbols of financial power. People desired their previous, more innocent lives. “Remember the ordinary if you can,” the New York Times asked of its readership in their Sept. 12, 2001, editorial. “Remember how […]
Author Archives: Kelly Rayburn
Cal Grant recipients still without aid in budget crisis
It appears efforts to convince Gov. Gray Davis to approve emergency spending packages ““ parts of which would fast-track hundreds of millions of dollars in need-based financial aid to California college students ““ will fall short. As the state enters the ninth week of the fiscal year without a budget, nearly 200,000 students are without […]
Mourners remember Marla and Ben
Students and community members gathered last week at UCLA to mourn the loss and remember the lives of seven people killed in an attack in late July on a “home of dialogue and tolerance” ““Â the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “(We mourn) the deaths and murder of students ““Â our peers, our friends, our sons, daughters, brothers, […]