Author Archives: Kimberly Young

The Undergraduate Students Association Council doled out approximately $500,000 of this year’s $2.86 million budget to student groups ““ an amount that some clubs say was not enough.

As police officers stood by, about 20 Associated Students UCLA student workers sat in a circle in the street on Westwood Boulevard on Saturday, blocking the increased traffic brought to UCLA by the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. As part of their campaign to unionize, students staged the protest to bring community attention to […]

Over 200 guests listened to Father Vazken Movsesian describe his visit to a genocide museum in Rwanda, under which 260,000 bodies were buried.

Brendan Duffy said he used sandbags to protect his little bunk from incoming rocket fire at night, which also happened to make a bookshelf for the math textbook, novels and magazines he read while stationed in Iraq, much to the amusement of his fellow soldiers. Due to this constant reading, he said he returned home […]

As she sat in a wheelchair, Jeong-hee Ku struggled to pull on pants while not moving her legs. Ku, a fourth-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student, is not paralyzed, but on Monday, she and a group of other students simulated disabilities in an attempt to understand what disabled students go through on a daily […]

In New Orleans over spring break as part of volunteer program, I placed the water-warped children’s books and faded Christmas tree ornaments next to the folded up American flag and Mother Mary statue that were already piled on the floor, the only remnants of the family that used to live in a ravished New Orleans […]

After months of private campaigning, more than 50 student workers and union organizers attended the Associated Students UCLA board of directors meeting Friday to present their reasons for trying to unionize. Students say they are attempting to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME Local 3299, in order to get […]