Author Archives: Shaudee Navid

As the second-most populated city in the United States, with 3.5 million people and an expected 50,000 more each year, Los Angeles faces complex challenges in its quest for a sustainable future. From environmental issues to affordable housing, urban thinkers from a variety of disciplines gathered on Oct. 6 in Perloff Hall to begin searching […]

As dusk peaked through the curtains of the Grand Horizon Ballroom in Covel Commons on Oct. 2, Yom Kippur observers endured the remaining moments of their 25-hour fast. Standing together, the energy in the room was high as the rhythmic clapping and chanting of prayers and confessions echoed off the walls. Roughly 30 miles away, […]

Stacey Arthur arrives at Bonner Elementary School in Houston, Texas at 6:30 a.m. every weekday to make photocopies, fill out paperwork, and set up her classroom. Unlike most teachers, Arthur prepares for a special group of students: students with moderate to severe mental disabilities. “It’s an adventure,” she said of teaching necessary life skills to […]

Jenna Korobow, a recent theater alumna, had been on stage many times, but nothing could have prepared her for her post-graduate debut: teaching the first grade. “First-graders are not tall but they could really scare the heck out of me,” said Korobow of her first day teaching summer school in Philadelphia last year. “They could […]

Some UCLA professors say they are rethinking their policies on allowing students to tape-record their lectures after a Web site asked for taped lectures as evidence of “radical” professors. Concern with tape-recording rose among some faculty after the media attention garnered by UCLAProfs.com, a Web site founded by former Bruin Republicans leader and Bruin Alumni […]

While the basketball team practices for the upcoming national championships, a group of unique competitors prepare for a different kind of tournament ““ the North American Collegiate Bridge Championship. Though they practice indoors, and sometimes online, the Bruin Bridge Club members are nothing short of athletes, as the game includes the most vital elements of […]

With dimmed lights and synthetic fog creeping underneath the classroom doorway, Melvin Jimenez hopes to take students back in time to the beat of Billy Idol, where mullets ruled and leggings were a staple. Teaching ’80s pop culture, Jimenez is taking part in a unique program that provides upperclassmen with the opportunity to teach their […]