When poet and black activist Amiri Baraka was a librarian for the Air Force, he and his friends would stay up late, discussing works of great authors ““ and for him, this kind of engagement of ideas is the most important aspect of education. Baraka spoke to an audience of 200 students about the importance […]
Author Archives: Wafiqah Basrai
Los Alamos steps up security
In light of a recent security breach at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as other security scares at the nation’s major nuclear research center, the facility is implementing various new security measures. In October 2006, police found confidential data from the lab on an employee’s personal computer. The lab is co-managed by the […]
Satisfaction “˜high,’ senior survey says
The majority of UCLA seniors say they are satisfied with their academic and social opportunities, but found problems with class size and racial interaction on campus, according to results of the annual senior survey scheduled for release today. The survey, which was conducted last spring and questioned the graduating class of 2006, focuses on three […]
Anti-abortion group hopes to educate
“Free babies,” Lila Rose called to people who passed by Bruin Walk on Monday. “Take a baby.” Rose and other members of the club Live Action handed out life-size models of a 12-week-old fetus ““ which is about the length of an index finger ““ to educate students about abortion on Monday. On the 34th […]
Auditing for further education
Jessica Ngo wants to get an upper hand in the business world, and she is learning Chinese to help her do so. But Ngo is not going about learning a language the way many other students would. Instead of enrolling in a Chinese class, she is auditing, or sitting in on, the class for the […]
Future physicians to lobby for health care
About 30 UCLA students will learn how to lobby and will promote universal health care in Sacramento next Tuesday during the second annual Universal Health Care Lobby Day. The UCLA chapter of the American Medical Student Association will join more than 300 other AMSA members from California colleges in an effort to change the state’s […]
Reaching for less expensive textbooks
In her two years at UCLA, Sumedha Singh has bought only one textbook, and that’s only because she absolutely needed to. The second-year neuroscience student is often found in Powell Library, her nose buried in textbooks she doesn’t own. Her strategy is simple: Don’t buy textbooks, check them out at Powell for free. “Besides saving […]