Author Archives: Robert Faturechi

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a sweeping series of nominations to city advisory panels last week, tapping a diverse group of the city’s most accomplished community leaders including a UCLA pediatrics professor and a high-ranking member of the university’s labor center. The 42 nominees ““ if confirmed by city council ““ will serve on boards focusing […]

Deise Ponce, a UC Santa Barbara student, showed up shortly before 4 a.m., a full four hours before the Spanish Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard opened its doors. Ponce, like many UC students hoping to study abroad in Spain this fall, was forced to make the early-morning trek to Los Angeles after hearing word that the […]

As the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. begins, it will be up to the nation’s senators to decipher who this largely unknown federal judge is and where he stands on today’s most divisive issues. Though many suspect the 55-year-old Harvard graduate, if confirmed, would sway the Court to the right on […]

Antonio Villaraigosa urged Angelinos to dream big and come together after he was sworn in Friday morning as the new mayor of Los Angeles on the steps of City Hall, becoming the city’s first Latino mayor in more than a century. “We need to start thinking big again and facing up to our biggest challenges,” […]

It’s hard not to notice him: white mop, cherry complexion, tall and well dressed, with a subtle New York twang to boot. But beyond recognizing his presence on campus, many students are unaware of Chancellor Albert Carnesale’s notable past ““ one that took him from a small engineering school in New York to negotiating with […]

She slips her sandals off, stretches out a faded green prayer rug, and begins. Though her days at UCLA are numbered, graduating student Sheela Shneezai still finds time to steal away from her busy schedule to kneel beside an ivy-laden wall behind Kerckhoff and give thanks for being taken from a land of violent upheaval […]

A Rieber resident accidentally fell a story and a half from her third-story window early Saturday morning onto the roof of the dining hall, but was not seriously injured, university police said. Police said the resident Theresa Oda-Burns, a first-year undeclared student and a member of the UCLA women’s soccer team was taken to the […]