Author Archives: Roberta Wolfson

As the Associated Students UCLA Board of Directors considers whether to remove Coca-Cola products from campus, it is also mulling over the possible effects of its decision, including lost revenues for ASUCLA and a potentially tricky bidding process to find a new drinks vendor if Coca-Cola decides to bid again. The consideration comes after protests […]

The shoe store in Ackerman is back. Only this time, it’s under a different name. Though the new store won’t open until June, signs announcing Shoe City’s arrival have already been placed in front of the former Copeland Sports section of the UCLA Store. Shoe City will replace Copeland Sports, which operated in the UCLA […]

When Associated Students UCLA representatives speak at their monthly board meetings, the room is usually relatively quiet. But at the ASUCLA board of directors’ meeting this past Friday, it was hard to hear their voices over the shouts and cheers of about 20 students demonstrating outside Kerckhoff Hall and the muffled murmurs of another 50 […]

At an hour when most students still lay sleeping in bed, a minor drama unfolded on the A-level of Ackerman Union early Monday morning. It was 6:15 a.m., and water was spraying into the UCLA Store. While working on the fire sprinkler system of the future Jamba Juice eatery, to be debuted in mid-May, the […]

Anthony Dunbar calls himself a “go-getter.” He doesn’t just do work in his office. Instead, the fourth-year doctoral student in information studies and candidate for Graduate Students Association president goes out on campus, armed with a camcorder and ready to hear directly from students. As the current director of communication for GSA, Dunbar has worked […]

Between telling jokes and sharing stories, the guitarist, bongo drummer, flutist and two fiddlers of the student band Barghest fill the room with a unique fusion of traditional Irish, Scottish, English and Celtic music during their practice every week. On March 17, Barghest and actors from the student group Erin Go Bragh will perform together […]

A few years ago, the staff of the student magazine La Gente de Aztlan printed 18,000 copies of each 32-page issue per quarter. Today, La Gente editor Jose Manuel Santillana, a fourth-year Chicano studies student, said his staff can only print 1,000 copies of each issue, which has diminished in size to 16 pages. This […]