It figures. I’ve known for years I would be writing a -30- column, yet here I am, a few hours before it is due, still figuring out what I want to say.
Author Archives: Sara Taylor
Facebook Flyers attack USAC slates
While candidates and their supporters blanketed campus Monday in preparation for the undergraduate student government elections, handing out treats, fliers and platform information to students passing by, another very different campaign had already begun on Facebook.
Shooter, 23, identified
Following Monday’s shooting at Virginia Tech ““ the deadliest such incident in the nation’s history ““ students at the Blacksburg, Va., campus mourned as details of the events became clearer. Police identified the shooter ““ Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old student ““ and released some of the names of the victims. On Monday morning, there were […]
Men plead not guilty in cadaver case
Two men accused of running a body-parts-for-profit scheme out of the UCLA Willed Body Program pleaded not guilty Friday, after being charged and arrested two days earlier. Henry Reid, the former director of the program, and his associate Ernest Nelson, who at the time was the owner of Empire Anatomical Co., allegedly trafficked body parts […]
Men charged in cadaver scandal
The former director of UCLA’s Willed Body Program and his associate were charged with felony and arrested Wednesday for allegedly selling body parts from cadavers that had been donated to the university for research. Henry Reid, who was the director of the program from May 1997 to March 2004, is accused of giving body parts […]
Budget to cut programs
When President Bush announced last week his proposal to increase Pell Grants by 33 percent over the next five years, educators and lobbyists were concerned the funding for this would coincide with cuts to other education programs. And as it turns out, the unprecedented increase to Pell Grants is coupled with a proposal to cut […]
Student files lawsuit over Taser use
Two months after he was hit repeatedly with a Taser by university police, Mostafa Tabatabainejad has filed a civil rights lawsuit against UCLA and university police saying he “suffered an unprovoked act of police brutality.” On Nov. 14, 2006, the fourth-year Middle Eastern and North African studies student was repeatedly hit with a Taser after […]