Author Archives: Noah Grand

Workers throughout the country are feeling the devastation of a struggling national economy, and UCLA’s employees are no exception. The shrinking state budget limited most employees to small pay raises, maintaining the vast differences in pay at UCLA and perhaps hurting the university’s ability to recruit top faculty and staff. Chancellor Albert Carnesale, who received […]

Students will need to vote and lobby politicians and regents to prevent a student fee increase for next school year, university officials and student leaders say. Fees for California residents were not raised during the last fiscal year, even as the state faced a $23.6 billion budget hole. But if the state’s economy does not […]

As most Americans spent the week reflecting a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, protesters in Westwood spent Saturday arguing that war with Iraq would be like a terrorist attack. “George W. Bush is a terrorist just like bin Laden. He stole the presidency and now he is trying to steal the world,” said […]

Many of the policies impeding undocumented immigrants ability to receive a college education could be repealed in the near future. Similar to a California bill passed last October, a U.S. Senate bill sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, would allow certain undocumented aliens to become citizens after graduating from a U.S. high school. The bill, […]

The budget deadlock in the state Legislature may hit some California students close to home if an agreement is not reached before the beginning of fall classes. Cal Grants, usually distributed in the first two weeks of August, have been delayed as the state continues to operate without a budget. Until a budget is signed, […]