Blaring sounds of a red guitar vibrated throughout the halls of Ackerman Union when a lively guitarist and a band of three began to play their music Friday evening. What most of the audience from the show did not know is that the same man who was rocking out on stage had spent the earlier […]
Author Archives: Saba Riazati
World AIDS Day: Student groups put attention on AIDS
“Free love,” a term used in the 1960s and 1970s akin to promiscuity, was an ideological norm that would be deemed unacceptable today. In recent years, the number of HIV/AIDS awareness programs and sex education courses has increased, pushing attitudes and sexual behaviors in a more conservative direction. Several student groups have collaborated to organize […]
UCLA to direct U.N. drug-rehab training
Sarah Wamunyu left Africa, the only continent she has lived on, two days ago to come to what most call the land of opportunity. Only the land she is concerned with is the UCLA campus, and the main opportunity that has drawn her here is the chance to master techniques to better deal with drug […]
Speakers discuss human trafficking
People noisily made haste to find seats in a Royce Hall auditorium adorned with flags from the international community on Tuesday night ““ but they were not there for the type of performance that usually takes place inside the building during evening hours. It was an event meant to offer insight into the callous reality […]
Schwarzenegger’s back
Incumbent Arnold Schwarzenegger was reelected for a second term as governor Tuesday night as support from voters put him thousands of votes ahead of Democratic challenger Phil Angelides. The actor-turned-politician won his first term in 2003 as part of an effort to recall Gray Davis. With 66.3 percent of California precincts reported, Schwarzenegger was declared […]
Big parties can cost a pretty penny
A budget tab that lists a life-size pirate statue, lumber and materials to build a ship, a plank and a waterfall would seem like it would be the shopping list for the set of the next “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. But it is the list of materials for a party down the street from […]
A Closer Look: Professor seeks stronger U.N.
Michael Intriligator has worked with the United Nations and academics around the world to increase the effectiveness of the international government. Intriligator, a professor emeritus of economics, political science and public policy who has been with UCLA since 1963, has studied the effectiveness of the United Nations and is currently working with an international group […]