JazzReggae Festival organizers explore alternate funding strategies

Some UCLA students expect to front more of their own money to help organize this year’s JazzReggae Festival after the undergraduate student government took back $40,000 it originally allocated to the event. The festival, held every Memorial Day weekend at UCLA, attracts thousands of attendees and features an array of artists, along with food vendors from […]

Panel to discuss NSA surveillance, conflict with civil liberties

Every time someone in the United States dials a number on his or her cellphone or sends an email, data is collected and stored by the National Security Agency, the government’s signals intelligence arm. Thee current and future role of the NSA will be discussed on Wednesday in a panel hosted by Conor Friedersdorf, a […]

Vietnamese Culture Night explores mental health, domestic abuse

Teri Nguyen’s family did not know much about autism when her brother started acting aloof. They did not even know the word for autism in Vietnamese, their first language. “We never asked further – ‘why?’”said Nguyen, the director for this year’s 34th annual Vietnamese Culture Night and a third-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student. […]

Memorial honors anniversary of Black Panther students’ deaths

The original version of this article contained multiple errors and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. A four-year-old stone bearing the names oftwo deceased Black Panthers and former student leaders stood amid the faint glow of candles Friday night. During the vigil in front of Campbell Hall, students, friends […]

UCLA offers higher-level ASL classes to accommodate demand

The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Seated in her American Sign Language class, Christina Pettus assuredly moved her fingers and hands to communicate, a task she has done since she was six months old. Only this time her translations felt […]