Author Archives: Menaka Fernando

A pioneer in the field of pediatric cardiology, a medical mentor and a best friend to a former University of California president, Dr. Arthur J. Moss, a professor emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine, died July 14 of kidney failure. He was 90. Moss, coming to UCLA from a private clinic in Inglewood […]

A man accused of raping a UCLA student in 2002 was sentenced to 60 days in county jail Tuesday for a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery. DeShawn Stringer, 19, received the sentence for the misdemeanor charge after he was convicted for squeezing the buttocks of another woman on the same day he is accused of […]

When several hundred service union members and supporters marched through campus and chanted for higher wages and better promotion opportunities July 9, they didn’t have to understand each other to know they stood for the same thing. Workers from Guatemala to Japan to the hallways and dining halls of UCLA participated in the American Federation […]

By Menaka Fernando BRUIN SENIOR STAFF mfernando@media.ucla.edu Sen. John Kerry announced a plan last week to support aspects of higher education that would increase graduation rates among underrepresented minority students and women and get U.S. colleges up to speed with other countries in producing graduates in the math and science fields. Termed Kerry’s plan for […]

Making a bold move for a new council, the undergraduate student government voted to reinstate two previously-suspended general representatives to their jobs last week by overruling a Judicial Board ruling ““ a power that council has rarely ever exercised in the past. In a 7-2 vote, the Undergraduate Students Association Council voted to lift a […]

Looking at the inviting booths and fresh goods at Thursday’s weekly Westwood Farmers’ Market on June 24, it seemed like last week was no different than any other for the growers and sellers that have been gracing Weyburn Avenue with their homegrown produce and fresh-cut flowers for the past 10 years. But last week was […]

By Menaka Fernando BRUIN SENIOR STAFF mfernando@media.ucla.edu On one side of a small office of the colorfully decorated LGBT Resource Center ““ tucked away inside the spanking new redbrick walls of the recently opened Student Activities Center ““ sits the top official on all issues that affect students living on the Hill. On the other […]