Tuesday, April 7, 1998 Protest targets professor ENVIRONMENT: Zuckerman supports Sierra Club’s initiative against immigration By Mason Stockstill Daily Bruin Senior Staff A UCLA professor’s stance on the impact immigration has on the environment led five protesters to cluster outside his class Monday and hand out flyers to students entering the class. Students in Benjamin […]
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Community Briefs
Tuesday, April 7, 1998 Community Briefs Honor society awards scholarship to student Alpha Lambda Delta, the national academic honor society for college freshmen, recently awarded Michelle Sharee Toy the M. Louise McBee Fellowship of $3,000 for the 1998-99 academic year. This fellowship is just one of sixteen awards given every year by the society to […]
Crime Watch
Tuesday, April 7, 1998 Crime Watch Several large thefts were reported over the break. An EKG monitor valued at $18,000 was taken from the Center for Health Sciences at 10833 Le Conte. The crime was reported April 1. In addition, several computers and video projectors were stolen from Boelter Hall. Police have no suspects in […]
New year-long cluster classes offered for general education
Tuesday, April 7, 1998 New year-long cluster classes offered for general education REFORM: Integrating survey courses on race, thought may be difficult By Brian Fishman Daily Bruin Contributor UCLA administrators have released a new wave of cluster courses, as a part of a proposed general education overhaul. The three new interdisciplinary classes are prototypes, intended […]
Fewer minority students offered admission
Monday, April 6, 1998 Fewer minority students offered admission DIVERSITY: Entering class has best academic statistics ever for UCLA By J. Sharon Yee Daily Bruin Contributor Nearly two weeks after UC campuses at Irvine, San Diego and Davis announced the acceptance of fewer minority students for the fall quarter, UCLA and UC Berkeley released similar […]
Community Briefs
Monday, April 6, 1998 Community Briefs UCs haven’t enacted anti-slave labor policy A year after the UC Board of Regents enacted an anti-slave labor purchasing policy, UC President Richard Atkinson has yet to implement it. The policy bans the purchase of foreign goods produced by forced laborers as defined by California state and federal laws. […]
Students hope to broaden role on chancellor’s committee
Monday, April 6, 1998 Students hope to broaden role on chancellor’s committee CAMPUS: Concerns of group had been left out of minutes, off agenda By Lawrence Ferchaw Daily Bruin Contributor The Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Disabilities (CACD) was formed to make the campus more accessible to students with disabilities. But recently, student members of the […]