Author Archives: Shaun Bishop

UCLA’s Asian Pacific Coalition has begun its fight against the Racial Privacy Initiative ““ which could ban collection of race and ethnic-related data in California ““ more than a year before the measure hits the ballot. APC is forming a task force to campaign against the RPI, slated for the California ballot in March 2004. […]

sbishop@media.ucla.edu Since Sept. 11, 2001, they’ve faced hate mail, ridicule and threats because of their controversial views, yet many UCLA professors continue to teach and express themselves on their own terms. Repeatedly-targeted history professor Gabriel Piterberg, who openly voices his anti-Israeli views, thinks the criticism he’s received regarding these opinions has had subtle effects on […]

Today Bruins will be able to frolic and play in the Eskimo way as the Student Alumni Association brings snow into Bruin Plaza. Although snow in Los Angeles has not occurred since a half-inch trickle in 1962, SAA is breaking that trend in its own way by giving campus a touch of what real winter […]

It goes without saying that nearly everyone who attends UCLA needs textbooks. Therefore, students often have to buy books directly from the on-campus UCLA Store, shelling out whatever their learning materials cost. “It’s insane, but it’s what you have to pay,” said first-year undeclared student Richard Bernard. Isn’t there another way? In the past, many […]

As the last week of the quarter approaches, college students traditionally lose sleep to squeeze in those precious hours of information absorption before taking their final exams. But students looking to forsake shut-eye before finals in favor of doing some extra studying might be setting themselves up for failure when test time comes. Chris Miller, […]

The College of Letters & Science has decided to raise a fee many students don’t know exists. The fee increase could make a big difference on a student’s BAR account. Students were not consulted about the increase. The Instructional Enhancement Initiative fee, charged quarterly to students, will be increased from $4 to $7 per unit […]

Fliers advertising the event read: “Billy “˜Upski’ Wimsatt speaks on “˜Why UCLA is America’s best hope to save our ass in the 21st century.’” But “Upski” didn’t want to come 3,000 miles to UCLA just to bore students with another anti-war seminar on Iraq. The session became a brainstorming session on how to make people […]