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Author Archives: Lauren Gabbaian
Webcast viewed in various lights
Fourth-year history student Daniel Benji never used to miss lectures if he could help it. Only an emergency could have kept him away. But that was before BruinCast, a new service being tested in four classes this quarter, which videotapes lectures and puts them online for later viewing. Now Benji is a little more ambivalent. […]
A new environment for change
After years of working to promote social change in the institutions around it, the group formerly known as the Environmental Coalition is going through some changes itself, including today’s reopening of its Kerckhoff Hall office as the Sustainable Resource Center. The center, which already acts as a lending library for written materials related to environmental […]
Fast-a-Thon promotes hunger with a cause
Looking out into Westwood and the greater city of Los Angeles, it is not difficult to find people who may not know the source of their next meal. During the Islamic month of Ramadan, it is also easy to find Muslims who choose to give up food, eating only at night in the name of […]
ITT Tech accused of misreporting grades
ITT Educational Services, Inc. has agreed to reimburse the state of California $725,000 for Cal Grants mistakenly rewarded as a result of the company misreporting student grades, ITT announced Monday. The mistakes were exposed by two former employees of ITT, which operates technical colleges at over 75 locations across the United States under the name […]
Casting a ‘Net of lectures
It is not uncommon for a student to miss a lecture every now and then. He overslept; she was sick; he was arrested for his unpaid parking tickets and could not make bail. There was once a time when such a student would have had to rely on classmates’ notes to learn the day’s material. […]
Students praise, knock Carnesale
After eight years as chancellor, Albert Carnesale will leave behind a legacy of successful fundraising and capital programs, but he has garnered mixed reviews from some past and present student leaders on his accessibility to students. While some praised Carnesale’s attempts to be available to students by holding office hours and felt he did an […]