Author Archives: Peach Indravudh

There was something beautifully alien about the Arctic landscape. Professor Laurence Smith looked beneath his plane as it flew over the broken Alaskan tundra. There were no trees, but rather a vast white sheet broken into geometric patterns and shapes, resembling hexagonal tiles. In the distance was a gray ocean hugging the structures of white […]

As he discusses the recent Mexican presidential election, Alfonso Galindo offers to show his Mexican voting card, eagerly looking through his wallet hoping to find it. He wants to show his proof he can vote. “I think I left it at home so I don’t lose it. Your voting card is like your social security […]

They didn’t believe it at first. They didn’t believe the idea of thousands of students running in their underwear around a university campus at night. But they joined in anyway. Irish students Danielle Moran, 20, and Aisling McHugh, 21, threw off their clothes along with UCLA students and started running into the heart of campus […]

In an attempt to intervene in the University of California’s process of improving transparency, the state Senate Education Committee approved 6-1 last Wednesday a bill which would require all discussions regarding executive compensation to be conducted in public meetings. Assemblyman Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, who authored the bill, said that this method of action will […]

After she had been in college for a year, second-year physiological science student Victoria Muchnik said she noticed students would talk a lot more about their sex lives in high schools, but at UCLA, fewer and fewer students would talk about the sexual aspects of their lives. This is not because high school students are […]

In what was an apparent suicide jump, UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton fell to her death from the 43rd floor of a San Francisco apartment building Saturday morning, authorities said. Denton, 46, who was the first openly gay University of California chancellor, was known for being an advocate for women in science and engineering. […]

As the price of real estate continues to increase, especially with the high cost of living in California, UCLA’s Anderson School of Business economists and corporate contributors concluded in their June 21 quarterly forecast that there will be a slight slump in the real estate market. After years of anticipating that California home prices would […]