Author Archives: Sophie Rane

Political interest among college freshmen has hit a 40-year high in 2008, according to a nationwide survey administered annually by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA.

Traipsing across Wilson Plaza in full uniform, six performers arrived inside Kaufman Hall on Tuesday to give a realistic Civil War presentation for students of Professor Casey Miner’s military science class.

Every seat in the Fowler Museum auditorium was occupied on Wednesday night, as guests crowded in to see a lecture by acclaimed author, scholar and UCLA professor Jared Diamond.

UCLA students and faculty traveling abroad can feel more at ease with a new risk notification system offered by the Office of Insurance and Risk Management.

Shirley Sher said she remembers seeing couples taking their wedding photos in front of Royce Hall as a student, and she always wanted to do the same with her husband someday.

The Armenian Students Association hosted a “Family Day” event Sunday with a recurring theme: “Many pieces, one Bruin family.”

In the village of No Lae in Northern Thailand, 50 students currently attend school in a single small room with no power.