For many, it was their first sex toy party. They gathered in a small two-room apartment, dimly lit by a trail of candles that gently wrapped the room in a soft glow. As the soulful tunes of Alicia Keys and Carlos Santana set the mood, all eyes fell on the black-velvet-covered coffee table at one […]
Author Archives: Menaka Fernando
Funding draft draws criticism
Members of the University of California’s systemwide student lobbying organization expressed dissatisfaction with several provisions of a new draft of student government funding, released by the UC Office of the President, after reviewing the draft during the past week. UCOP released its second draft of guidelines regarding student government funding last week. The office has […]
Campus dispute results in arrest
A student was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly harassing members of a student group embroiled in a campaign to discredit the Chicana/o student group MEChA. Grant Lopez, a 34-year-old UCLA student, was arrested late Wednesday morning under the charge of robbery, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Lopez is being held on $50,000 bail. […]
Bruin Republicans campaign against MEChA’s views
The Bruin Republicans are launching a campaign today in an effort to get a Chicana/o student group on campus to denounce what they consider to be radical and racist views. The campaign, their first of the year, begins close to five months after the issue was highlighted during the days leading up to the gubernatorial […]
Student remembers hero on anniversary of shuttle crash
When third-year aerospace engineering student Smitha Prabhuswamy was 12, she decided she wanted to be the first Indian woman to go to space. But the very next year, Kalpana Chawla beat her to it when Chawla flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia in November 1997. Six years later, Chawla flew on the same space shuttle […]
Anti-Islamic Week flyers posted on MSA signs
Offensive flyers about Islamic Awareness Week were posted on sign boards set up by the Muslim Student Association on Bruin Walk on Friday ““ the last day of a week coordinated by the student group to raise consciousness about the Islamic culture and religion. MSA members discovered the flyers Friday morning and immediately removed them, […]
Leaders emphasize collective awareness
George Grose ““ an ordained Presbyterian minister ““ sits in his small office on the third floor of the University Religious Center discussing the importance of Islamic Awareness Week. But, as one of the founders of the Academy of Judaic, Christian & Islamic Studies at UCLA, he emphasizes the pathway to awareness is not a […]