Author Archives: Peach Indravudh

UCLA Labor Center Director Kent Wong is said to be the frontrunner to replace the head of a major L.A. labor organization, according to published reports. The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday that Wong is being considered to replace Martin Ludlow, the head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, who indicated Tuesday that […]

University of California President Robert Dynes promised reforms of the UC’s compensation practices and apologized for a past lack of transparency during a state Senate hearing in Sacramento on Wednesday. In his opening testimony to the California Senate Education Committee, Dynes admitted the UC has not always met its obligations to the public regarding transparency […]

As he waited in the back of a classroom before making a presentation, communication studies Professor Tim Groeling observed students as they took notes for the class, listened to the lecturing professor and played computer solitaire. As society’s dependence on technology grows, students have increasingly used laptop computers as note-taking devices. And with wireless Internet […]

Samuel Alito was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday morning and sworn in as the United States’ 110th Supreme Court justice, marking the second judicial confirmation to the nation’s highest court in five months. In one of the most partisan Republican victories for a Supreme Court justice, all but one of the 55 Republican senators […]

Asserting that they have a right to access government information and data, the interest group Students for Sensible Drug Policy sued the U.S. Department of Education last week for failing to disclose a state-level breakdown of students who were denied federal financial aid due to prior drug convictions. As per the 1998 Drug Provision of […]

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito in a 10-8 vote Tuesday, clearing the way for the Senate to begin discussion and debates on his confirmation to the Supreme Court as early as today. All 10 Republicans on the committee voted for Alito, and all eight Democrats voted against him, including […]

Understanding the Pythagorean theorem and knowing the difference between their, they’re and there could now be essential to obtaining a high school diploma, as such concepts will be found on the California High School Exit Exam (CASHEE). Early in the new year, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell unyieldingly insisted that high school students […]