Both propositions on the primary elections ballot Tuesday appeared to be heading for defeat at the hands of California voters. As of 10:52 p.m. Tuesday, with 21 percent of precincts reporting, 54.3 percent voted “no” on Proposition 81, and 59 percent voted “no” on Proposition 82. Proposition 81 would have provided funds toward public library […]
Author Archives: Peach Indravudh
When grad students become the teachers
About a week before Mother’s Day, the fifth-grade students of Lindi Williams’ classroom are painting pastels of pink, blue and yellow onto egg cartons. The project will soon be planted with soil and flower seeds to be given to their mothers. Williams watches and observes her students closely, some splattering paint over each other, others […]
UCLA calmly hears out controversial speaker
Despite the controversy leading up to Norman Finkelstein’s visit to campus because of his extremist views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Holocaust, the environment surrounding the event was subdued, provoking little visible opposition from students and faculty. Finkelstein, who is a professor of history at DePaul University in Chicago and has published several books […]
Students aid residents of Skid Row
Early in the morning on his way to work, Justin Mammen walks past blocks of battered tents and the blue-and-gray sleeping bags of local residents resting on a concrete sidewalk. This disheveled and unkempt area is Skid Row, sandwiched between the fashion and financial districts in downtown Los Angeles, and it presents a stark contrast […]
Professor honored as 100th research lecturer
Karen Orren, a political science professor, said jokingly that since coming to teach at the UCLA campus 37 years ago, certain faculty members now have campus buildings named after them, referring to former Dean Paul Dodd. “I’ve been here in Los Angeles for so long, it’s about time I was chosen,” said Orren, who was […]
Series sends students out into the reel world
Deteriorated and forgotten heroic films, classic Hollywood movies and old home videos have come back to life at various screenings at UCLA. Providing students a glimpse into films from the silent era through the 1980s, Hollywood studios are working together with UCLA’s Film and Television Archive and the Moving Image Archive Studies graduate program to […]
State senators can’t oust Dynes directly
Pressure on the University of California escalated Wednesday when three state senators said UC President Robert Dynes should leave office for failing to adequately manage the university. But for now, there is little that senators can do to effect change within the UC other than urge university officials to follow their advice. Sens. Jeff Denham, […]