Author Archives: Narges Zohoury

Entitled “Nuestro Deber: Our Duty to Empower Our Communities,” the Seventh Annual National Latina/o Law Conference made history by marking the birth of a national association for Latina/o law students. Representatives from 20 law schools across the country were present at the conference, which was hosted by the UCLA School of Law’s La Raza Law […]

A new initiative, launched in 2002 to help students master practical and conceptual literary skills and use them throughout their time at school and beyond, is now being tested in the UCLA sociology department. According the university library, the goal of information literacy is to improve students’ ability to identify information needs, locate information efficiently, […]

Based on Food and Drug Administration regulations set in 1985, any man who has had sex with another man since 1977 is under a lifelong ban from donating blood or blood products. Any woman who has had sex with any individuals described above is also banned. “I feel that it’s discrimination,” Jack Raab, director of […]

During this year’s gubernatorial elections, there will be no voting locations on the UCLA campus. This might come as a shock to returning students who are accustomed to having polls throughout campus. UCLA and its community are not the only ones affected by the decrease in the number of polling locations ““ the ramifications of […]

UCLA classics Professor Andrew Dyck was arrested Thursday for allegedly sending pornographic material to a 13-year-old Simi Valley girl over the Internet. Police said after 56-year-old Dyck was informed of his case by the Simi Valley police department, he reported to the police station. Dyck was later taken from the police department to the Ventura […]

Earlier this week, Sebastian Perkinson, a first-year civil engineering student, checked his MyUCLA Web site, and his entire course schedule had disappeared. All of his classes had been dropped because he was not aware that a notification would no longer be mailed, and as a result, he had not paid his fees on time. On […]

For an organization like the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center, one of the few offices operating in the recently opened Student Activities Center, the building’s construction is a blessing and a curse. Despite the noise and the dust, Ronni Sanlo, director of the LGBT center, said she is grateful to be in the […]