Author Archives: Sara Taylor

Nine years after graduating from UCLA, Iva Toguri D’Aquino became the seventh person to be convicted of treason against the United States, charged with disloyalty for her presence as a radio personality on a Japanese station during World War II. When she was tried in San Francisco in 1949, people lined up around the block […]

Dorm dinners, floor activities, late-night talks in the hallway and shared dread of general education classes ““ all those things that promote bonding among freshmen during their first few weeks at UCLA ““ are not an element of the graduate student social scene. While an incoming undergraduate student studying history may live next to a […]

As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills that will allow the University of California and the state of California to move ahead with divestment, his words echoed the statements students have been making for more than two years. “Today I am signing two bills that will send a clear message across the globe: California will […]

It can be easy to skim a newspaper, take in the headlines and visuals, and then move on. I admit it ““ there are days when I look through the Los Angeles Times or New York Times and quickly move on, putting my mind back to class or another concern of that day. But then […]

A 12-1 student-to-faculty ratio. A student body that is 7 percent black and 25 percent Hispanic. Space in the on-campus residence halls at UC Merced for all students who want it, two full residence halls empty and parking for all students living on campus, which totals about 400. “Obviously, parking is provided for people living […]

Soon after hearing the news that Israel had bombed the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Combiz Abdolrahimi opened a forum for discussion in the best way he saw fit ““ on Facebook. With a group that has drawn more than 2,600 members in less than three weeks, the third-year political science and […]

On the first day of his diving trip to the Republic of Palau, Tai Sunnanon found himself face to face with a clam more than a meter in length. “It was the one time I screamed like a girl,” said Sunnanon, who graduated from UCLA in 2001 and spent two years as a Peace Corps […]