Author Archives: Lindsey Morgan

The results of the university-distributed professor evaluations could potentially be made available to students within the upcoming academic year. The numerical data from the end-of-quarter professor evaluations are at the center of a proposal currently in the works by Marwa Kaisey, president of the Undergraduate Students Association Council. According to the Daily Bruin archives, professor […]

The state budget for the 2006-2007 fiscal year, signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on June 30, portends a promising fiscal year for the University of California, though its long-term stability has been questioned. The new budget promises to fund enrollment growth at the UC and provides $75 million in state funds to offset student fee […]

His newly-awarded doctorate was not yet twelve hours old when Wenyuan Shi embarked on a project which has since changed the lives of hundreds of children in rural China. The idea, Shi said, was simple. With a doctorate in genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in hand, he was young, he felt lucky for the […]

Six months after its implementation, a student-initiated fee increase passed last spring seems to have delivered on its promised goals. The PULSE referendum was approved by a majority of voting undergraduate students in May 2005. PULSE, which stands for Promoting Understanding and Learning through Service and Education, raised student fees by $6.50 a quarter, to […]

One option for the UCLA community to eat vegetarian lunches on campus came to an abrupt end last week when a lunch program put on by a Hare Krishna monk was shut down by campus administration for violating California law. But student demand for the food provided through the Bhakti Yoga Club by Nama Kirtan […]

Lions danced around the room, egged on by children squealing in delight at their acrobatics and sparkling costumes. Crowds cheered beneath rows of red paper lanterns and clapped along as a children’s choir sang Chinese songs. The Chinese lunar year 4704, the Year of the Dog, was welcomed in by a sizeable crowd at UCLA […]

Practicing Tai Chi to treat rheumatoid arthritis may strike some as odd. But research on the healing uses of the Chinese martial art Tai Chi, as well as other non-Western medicinal approaches such as acupuncture and homeopathic remedies, is part of the daily grind at the UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine. In an effort […]