As part of his nationwide tour aimed at encouraging students and non-voters to go to the polls in the upcoming presidential election, controversial liberal filmmaker and author Michael Moore will appear on campus at the Los Angeles Tennis Center today. Moore’s stop at UCLA is midway through a tour that has elicited much excitement from […]
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Music festival unites cultures
During the next 10 days, musicians from around the world will dedicate their performances to ideals of cross-cultural understanding and peace in celebration of the birthday of a slain Wall Street Journal reporter. Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and killed while working on a story in Pakistan in early 2002. Since then, his family and friends […]
Bruins weigh voting options
Among the many decisions UCLA students from across the state and the country will have to make during the 2004 presidential election is whether to re-register in Los Angeles or remain registered in their home county and vote by absentee ballot. An eligible voter can easily get an absentee ballot and use it to vote […]
Camejo seeks youth support
To a crowd of students, some who support and others who oppose the Reform Party’s 2004 presidential campaign, the party’s vice-presidential candidate Peter Camejo spoke at UCLA on Friday afternoon. Camejo detailed his goals and condemned the actions and platforms of both the Republican and Democratic hopefuls. Camejo came to campus to rally youth support […]
Professor bias sparks national interest
As the school year begins and students choose new classes, rumors about different courses and professors will abound. Students hear countless stories from their peers, national organizations and the media about university professors allegedly using their classrooms as a forum to promote their personal agenda and ideology. Across the nation, many believe professor bias is […]
Vandalism probe clears USAC representatives
A university police investigation found insufficient evidence against two undergraduate student government general representatives in a case of vandalism that allegedly occurred during runoff elections in spring. The councilmembers will remain suspended from duty until the Judicial Board receives official documentation of the finding. On the last day of the runoff elections for the Undergraduate […]
Past campus issues still relevant today
Ten years ago, campus life at UCLA was in many ways different than it is today ““ students didn’t have cell phones, the dorms weren’t equipped with Internet, and the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” was climbing the charts. But at the same time, many of the social and political issues that were most dear to students […]