Since the death of highly involved student leader Cynthia Rabuy in a traffic collision last week, her peers, colleagues and relatives have spent the last few days reflecting on her life and working on plans to memorialize her. Students from several entities on campus ““ including Samahang Pilipino, the Center for Student Programming, the Community […]
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Rabuy remembered for service to UCLA
UCLA suffered a tragic loss with the death of Cynthia Rabuy, a highly respected and revered student leader who was killed Wednesday night in a traffic collision. She was 23. Rabuy served as both chair and vice-chair on the board of directors for the Associated Students of UCLA for the last two years. She was […]
Anti-war protests resemble SP-1, 2 rallies
The crowd size, the chants cried and the campus presence seen during Wednesday’s student walkout were a throwback to a campus protest two years earlier, showing that some things don’t change with activism at UCLA. With an estimated turnout of over 1,000, the anti-war walkout paralleled the size of a March 2001 protest against anti-affirmative […]
Connerly responds to criticism with letter
The controversy over Ward Connerly’s nationally-televised remarks that it is possible to be a segregationist and not a racist is not yet dead, and neither Connerly nor his critics are willing to budge. Connerly’s interview on CNN with Wolf Blitzer has drawn fire from state legislators, advocacy groups and students throughout the University of California, […]
Town hall meeting to solicit student opinion
The average Joe of the UCLA community will get his first chance to ask about a possible switch to a semester system at a campus town hall meeting this afternoon. Chancellor Albert Carnesale and Academic Senate Chairman Duncan Lindsey will head the meeting and will be joined by members of the Joint Academic Senate / […]
Media straddles line between debt, profit
Achieving both independence and financial stability has been been a tricky beast for many nationwide college media outlets, and UCLA is among those working to retain its autonomy and still turn a profit. Student Media at UCLA supports the primary arena for Bruins to practice publishing and broadcasting on campus, but often at a financial […]
Thirty Years Later
Three decades after the landmark court decision that outlined abortion rights for the entire nation, activists from coast to coast are using today to commemorate the occasion and to fight the possible repeal of those rights. After the U.S. Supreme Court heard Roe v. Wade in 1973, anti-abortion laws throughout the country were negated, ending […]