Author Archives: Sara Taylor

Drawing 65 cents a month from California ratepayers, the state will use $3.2 billion over the next 11 years to make solar energy a more viable option for state residents. Committing $3.2 billion in incentive funds, the California Public Utilities Commission approved the California Solar Initiative Thursday by a 3-1 margin, after receiving more than […]

A recent investigation found that MRC Greenwood, the former second-ranked University of California official, violated conflict of interest policies. This finding is another point of discussion for UC officials in their examination of UC practices in coming months. The former UC provost, who resigned in November amid controversy about her hiring decisions, had hired a […]

A state senator has called for a Senate Education Committee hearing to investigate the University of California’s compensation policies, which were called into question by a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this month. Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, called the hearing because, as a public institution funded by taxpayers, the UC has a duty to […]

This January, students returning to New Orleans universities after spending the fall semester at other schools will not find the same campuses they left when Hurricane Katrina hit the city in late August. Some students at Tulane University will be living in cruise ships on the Mississippi River because housing around the university has been […]

In a resounding defeat for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, all eight propositions on the statewide special election ballot, four of which he sponsored, were rejected by California voters. As reports from more and more precincts came in Tuesday night, the margin of defeat for Schwarzenegger’s signature propositions widened. Two of his pet initiatives – Proposition 76, […]

President Bush has said that the 2,000 U.S. troops who have died in Iraq did so in pursuit of a worthy cause ““ to bring democracy to the Iraqi people. From halfway around the globe, Iraqi students at UCLA have had mixed feelings about this cause as they watched the coverage of the war, the […]

When UCLA alumnus Willy Leventhal met Rosa Parks in the mid-1970s, he found that she matched the description he had always heard. “She was a very quiet-spoken person, a very dignified person,” Leventhal said, speaking on his cell phone from the Rosa Parks Library and Museum at Troy University in Alabama. He said the library […]