Author Archives: Robert Faturechi

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came together with the heads of the University of California and the California State universities on Tuesday to announce an education initiative that sets out to jump-start the Golden State’s faltering K-12 math and science programs. The proposal, dubbed the “California Teach” program, aims to quadruple the state’s annual output of math […]

The football phenom who couldn’t make the grade, the master violinist with the low SAT score and the ballet whiz who couldn’t make time for a second year of Spanish. These are the square pegs whom the University of California has taken strides toward accommodating with the admission by exception program, a 1996 measure allowing […]

The result of Tuesday’s mayoral runoff could represent a historic turning point for Los Angeles, a city in the midst of a widespread racial shift. With a landslide victory over incumbent Mayor Jim Hahn, Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa became the city’s first Latino mayor since 1872 ““ winning the backing of blacks and valley whites while […]

It took two elections, scores of debates and months of bitter campaigning, but on Tuesday night one man emerged as the next mayor of Los Angeles. Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa handily defeated incumbent Mayor Jim Hahn by a sizeable margin, becoming the city’s first Latino mayor in more than a century. Throughout the campaign, the councilman […]

A bitterly contested mayoral election will finally come to a close today as Angelenos head to the polls to decide between incumbent Mayor Jim Hahn and his heady challenger Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa. The finale to the 10-week runoff comes in the midst of a barrage of negative campaigning from both camps. The incumbent, currently behind […]

As American soldiers engage in war abroad, army recruiters are waging an ideological battle at home with several of the nation’s top law schools. The legal wrangle, which could potentially transform Army recruiting on college campuses nationwide, directly addresses the conflict between the military’s need for new recruits and universities asserting their rights to academic […]

One was ousted by a Hollywood action hero, another took a break from politics to study Buddhism in Japan, and the third recently re-emerged in the public eye to take hold of the embattled UCLA Willed Body Program. And on Wednesday night they came together on campus to hash out the future of the state […]