Author Archives: Pegah Yazdy

Steve McNichols remembers being inspired to act after he heard about a beating of a group of activists in Alabama in the early 1960s. Then an undergraduate student at UCLA, McNichols was one of many UCLA students who took an active role in the Civil Rights Movement. He remembers a mob gathered around the civil […]

Adham El-Sherif and Kevin Duffel skateboarded down the aisles in the Northwest Campus Auditorium. They weren’t there to skateboard for leisure, but to discuss an issue they call “skateboardingism.” “Skateboardingism,” which they defined as discrimination against skateboarders, was one of nine topics that students presented Wednesday night at an event called The Isms Project, presented […]

Proposition 85, which would require parental notification at least 48 hours before a physician performs an abortion on a minor, is on the ballot for the Nov. 7 elections, after a similar proposition was narrowly rejected last year. Proposition 85 is very similar to last year’s Proposition 73, which was rejected by a 50.8 to […]

A UCLA scientist was part of the first team of scientists to observe distinct day and night temperatures on a planet outside our solar system, which observations experts said could help them better understand how distant planets function. Distinct day and night temperatures on the planet upsilon Andromedae b, which is located near the constellation […]

Students at Harvard can sign up for law and medical school entrance exams through their school’s academic counseling offices. At Yale, students can go directly to the pre-medical office for information about applying to medical school. But although UCLA also has top-ranked professional schools, it does not offer the same types of services to its […]

Michael Foraker, assistant vice chancellor of housing and hospitality, sits at his desk in the Housing Administration Building. On the wall hangs a poster of Sam the Eagle, the mascot for the 1984 Olympics. This year marks Foraker’s 25th at UCLA. Just three years into his tenure, the university played host to the athletes of […]