Author Archives: Wafiqah Basrai

Faizullah Zaki, a member of the Afghan parliament who fled the country in 1991 to escape the Taliban, said he recalls a time when the Afghani people were denied basic rights and women were banned from going to school. Though Zaki said he left the country before the Taliban was fully in power, he still […]

Los Angeles is out of the race. The U.S. Olympic Committee chose Chicago on Saturday to represent the country’s bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Los Angeles, which has hosted the games twice in the past, was Chicago’s final competitor for the bid. Had Los Angeles received the bid and eventually been chosen as […]

With more people interested in higher education and more accessible university outreach programs, a greater number of students are applying to top universities and finding it harder to get admitted to them. The percentage of students admitted into UCLA has significantly decreased this year, following a nationwide trend of dropping admissions rates at top universities. […]

Without the new scholarships black students will receive if they choose to attend UCLA, Robin Egbuniwe’s decision of which university to attend next fall would have been easy ““ Pitzer College had offered her a good amount of financial help, and UCLA had not. “If I can’t pay for college, I can’t go,” she said. […]

Due to concerns over high textbook prices and a recent report released by student public interest groups nationwide about publishers’ pricing tactics, lawmakers introduced the College Textbook Affordability Act to the California Legislature last week. Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, introduced SB 832 to provide guidelines to which textbook publishers must adhere in an effort […]

Dalia Labadi and Sagi Rasmovich both lost their best friends in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They said while their experiences initially consumed them with hate and anger, they found peace in trying to unite Israelis and Palestinians to end the violence. The two are similar in many ways, but one prominent differences separates them: Labadi is […]

While UCLA students settle back into their school routine after spring break, Alessandra Lopez-Hutchison will be hours away from the university, settling into a completely new environment. The second-year business-economics student plans to go to UC Santa Barbara though the University of California Intercampus Visitor Program, which allows students to attend a different UC for […]