The number of freshman admitted to UCLA for fall 2005 rebounded this year after state budget restrictions forced the university to initially cut the number of admissions for fall 2004. The University of California, which released its admissions data for next year’s freshman class on Tuesday, experienced an 11 percent increase in its university-wide admissions […]
Author Archives: Richard Clough
Followers mourn passing of pope
By Richard Clough bruin senior staff rclough@media.ucla.edu Catholics across Southern California and throughout the world mourned the death of Pope John Paul II in a series of weekend Masses, sharing memories and reflecting on the legacy of a leader remembered for his worldliness. Area churches held additional services late last week to pray for the […]
[A closer look] The art of controversy
Self-mutilation. Russian roulette. Crucifixion. It’s all in a day’s work for some performance artists. Performance art takes many different forms to fulfill many different purposes, and its validity and value in the world of art is often open to interpretation. The inherently ambiguous nature of art ““ particularly the typical abstractness of performance art ““ […]
UCLA employee struggles with tough decisions about brain-dead son
While Daniel Provencio lies in a brain-dead coma in a Bakersfield hospital with a prison guard by his side, his family may soon face the choice of discontinuing life support or taking on hospital bills they cannot afford to pay. Two and a half weeks after the incident in which the son of a UCLA […]
LGBT Center opens new computer lab
In addition to having the largest gay and lesbian library of any college campus in the country, the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center now boasts a state-of-the-art computer lab with the official opening of the David Bohnett CyberCenter on Thursday. The lab is the twentieth LGBT computer center in the United States […]
Tsunami devastates South Asia
When Mario Perera’s mother left the United States for their home country of Sri Lanka on Dec. 23, Perera had no obvious reason to fear for her safety. But after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, and resultant tsunami devastated South Asia on Dec. 26 ““ leaving nearly 50,000 people dead […]
Bill may set new school standard
What was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution? What is the purpose of the 11th Amendment? Don’t know? Well, you may soon if a West Virginia senator gets his way. As part of a new federal spending bill that passed through Congress last week, Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., has inserted a provision […]