Author Archives: Lee Bialik

They leave before dawn and begin a commute to UCLA that, in some cases, could take three hours in each direction. Johanna Amaya, a third-year mathematics student, is one of over 2,000 students and staff in the UCLA community who commute to campus using the vanpool program. During the fall quarter of her freshman year, […]

More than 11 years later, the objectives of campus hunger strikes have been realized. The UCLA Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies was approved last week by Chancellor Albert Carnesale, but without the name César E. Chávez attached to it, as the department had requested. Since its establishment in 1993, the César E. Chávez Center […]

More than three decades have passed since the death of Martin Luther King Jr., but civil rights activists and scholars say civil rights in the United States still have a long way to go. Some professors say the biggest challenges in the ongoing civil rights movement will be reforming education, housing and employment. Paul Von […]

Planning for student-initiated courses is well underway, and as early as this spring quarter students may be able to register for courses developed by their fellow students. The Academic Affairs Commission began working on the concept of student-initiated courses last spring in a program called the experimental college, an extension of the diversity requirement campaign. […]

Jaime Evans, a transfer student to UCLA who studied sociology and women’s studies, passed away in her family’s home in New Jersey on Oct. 27, 2004, of unknown causes. She was 28. Evans had nearly completed her degree at UCLA, and was at work on her senior thesis after studying abroad in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. […]

The UCLA School of Law is increasingly looking to private donors to compensate for recent cuts in state funding and may ask the university for increasing autonomy over those funds in the coming years. In response to discussion of privatization of the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, UCLA law school Dean Michael Schill […]

The decision to close campus facilities in the UC system during the holidays has left certain union employees with the choice of either taking unpaid leave or using their vacation days for the forced days off. The university plans to close certain buildings on campus as it did for the first time last year, in […]