Author Archives: Shaun Bishop

This is the only time my picture will be in the paper this year. So remember it. Because if we ever meet, and I have to remind you where I work, you’ll probably give me “the look.” Perhaps you’ve experienced the look. The “maybe I shouldn’t be talking to you, because you’re out to get […]

Speculation over the future composition of the Supreme Court will likely reach new heights this week as senators prepare for the confirmation hearings of chief justice nominee John G. Roberts Jr. The confirmation proceedings for Roberts, who was nominated to replace retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in July, took a new twist Sunday with […]

UCLA has implemented changes to its policies on background checks for potential employees following the arrest of a man found to be working at the university under an alias to hide his criminal past. Freddrick Brito, who went under the alias Federiqkoe DiBritto at UCLA, was arrested April 8 for a violation of his parole […]

As the Class of 2005 nears that walk to the podium to receive their diplomas, they have been encouraged to participate in a UCLA tradition ““ donating toward a senior class gift. But unlike the Royce Hall fountain or the venerable Bruin Bear ““ both gifts from past graduating classes ““ students won’t be able […]

Samuel Krachmalnick, a former conductor and faculty member at UCLA, is remembered by his friends and family as having a deep love of music and a powerful command of an orchestra. “He used to have a wonderful saying, “˜Don’t go around in a world of 150-watt bulbs and just be 50,’” said Gloria Lane, a […]

Members of the UCLA community have made travel plans spanning thousands of miles in recent days to be at close proximity with Pope John Paul II at his final resting place. Federiqkoe DiBritto, a Catholic pastor who also works in the David Geffen School of Medicine, is flying to Rome this week and is bringing […]

Matthew Carrington sat in the cold basement, soaked and shivering, surrounded by his peers. He had ingested gallons upon gallons of water that night in a pledge initiation ritual for his fraternity, Chi Tau. He was dead the next morning. Carrington was a victim of an alleged case of hazing at Cal State Chico University. […]