Author Archives: Yael Levin

Student-initiated fee increase proposal received enough signatures to go on spring ballot

Students collected enough signatures to place a student-initiated $9.93 quarterly fee increase proposal on the ballot for the spring elections, after the undergraduate student government rejected the proposal at a meeting last week.

The We Speak English Project fosters conversational learning of language

At just 19 years old, Matt Wright found doctors, engineers and chemists calling him “professor.” Wright said he felt undeserving of this title, even though he was helping the professionals learn to speak English. “My mission is to make learning English more social,” said Wright, a third-year Spanish and linguistics student who started the We […]

Afro-American interdepartmental program applies to become department

The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Faculty members associated with the Afro-American Studies Interdepartmental Program are looking to become a department, but the university may lack sufficient resources to support the change. The Afro-American Studies Interdepartmental Program submitted its […]

Faculty Women’s Club compiles rich history through oral project

Twenty UCLA faculty members and their wives waited in a cozy billiards room with closed eyes and bated breath. One woman lifted a plastic toy gun above her head and fired it. And so began a play reading at the Faculty Center, the building that sits just south of Murphy Hall. The reading is one […]