Author Archives: Roberta Wolfson

Last year, residents of the third floor of Dykstra Hall were shocked by the suicide of Amanda (Mandy) Hafleigh, a second-year American literature and culture student. In the aftermath of the tragedy, friends of Hafleigh suffered a communal feeling of shock and sorrow at the loss. A year later, the immediate trauma has faded for […]

Three months ago, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Three months later, the horror isn’t over. And activists are still ready to fight. Hoping to alert law students, community members and professors to the atrocities that continue to occur this long after the catastrophe, the UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program hosted a public […]