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Alumna in touch with her spiritual side
It was midnight, and Christine Wang felt edgy.
The then-third-year anthropology student worked the night shift at The Coffee Bean in Westwood. After locking the doors, Wang began the walk back to her apartment across from the cemetery on Veteran Avenue. Her discomfort heightened as she walked down the dark, empty street.
Skeptics of the spiritual cite lack of proof
When it comes to the paranormal, William Newman, UCLA professor of earth and space sciences, prescribes to a quote by his graduate school mentor and author Carl Sagan ““ “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
UCLA lab researched parapsychology in the ’70s
The phone calls would come in, and the voice on the other side would ask, “Do you believe in ghosts?”
This wasn’t a prank.
Religion’s role in professors’ studies
One of the principle tenets of the Baha’i faith is the agreement between science and religion: that religion without science is superstitious, and that science without religion lacks morality.
UCLA students reconnect with religion and spirituality
Bahar Moheban came to UCLA with a sense of faith.
_It’s easy to get medical marijuana_
A large sign jutted off the roof of the building, affixed with a neon green marijuana leaf.