Fourth-year linguistics and anthropology student Razi Zarchy did not rediscover his Jewish faith until after he came out as a transgendered person. “I distanced myself from Judaism because I didn’t think I’d be accepted in the community,” Zarchy said, during the National Coming Out Day Resource Fair on Monday. But two years ago, after Zarchy […]
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Drill simulates bus attacks
L.A. County law enforcement and safety officials took part in a multi-agency disaster drill Friday at UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium that simulated a terrorist attack on public transit buses comparable to attacks that have frequented parts of the Middle East. The drill began at 9 a.m. Friday morning and involved the participation of more than […]
UCSB physicist wins Nobel Prize for his quantum research
The 2004 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to UC Santa Barbara Professor David Gross Tuesday, marking the fourth time in six years that a faculty member of that campus has won the accolade and the 15th time in 10 years that a UC faculty member has won. Gross, 63, and his colleagues David Politzer […]
Uneven equation
It’s not surprising that fourth-year materials engineering student Sophia Wong says she feels like she knows every girl studying in the school of engineering with her ““ there’s not very many of them. “I know all the girls. It’s such a small world, you realize, within engineering,” Wong said. Wong is one of about 500 […]
Soldiers have difficult time adjusting to civilian life
When David Lowenthal, a recent UCLA graduate, returned to his home in Boston from the Gulf War in 1992, he had a difficult time trusting people. “You come from a place that you are living in fear every single day. … You look at everybody and everything with a suspecting kind of look,” the former […]
Journalism thrives on truth, not objectivity
I was in New York City on Sept. 11 this year. On the night of the anniversary, I saw the two blue beams of light that stood looming over lower Manhattan in place of the fallen towers. Like inverted search lights, they seemed to search deep into the dark sky looking for answers. Three years […]
Marine recounts life-changing events in Iraq, Afghanistan
He’s just about the age of a recent UCLA graduate ““ young, with most of his life still ahead of him. But he says war has aged him. “I’m 23, but I feel 30,” says Mario Leonidas, a Marine reserve, slouched low on a couch in the San Fernando Valley home where he grew up. […]