Celebrity sightings are one of the unique facets of campus life at UCLA. Whether it’s playing basketball with Adam Sandler at the Wooden Center or taking a class with a disguised Shakira, most students have their own celebrity run-in story.
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Science GEs pose little challenge
If you are a North Campus student, you probably try your best to avoid periodic tables, physics equations and Punnett squares. So it’s unlikely that you’re taking Chemistry 14A, Physics 1A or Life Sciences 1 to meet your science general education requirements, even though these classes are basic introductory requirements for science majors. Instead, your requirements will likely be met with one of the classes that upperclassmen or bruinwalk.com have told you are easier, such as Astronomy 3 or Physiological Sciences 5.
Outrage and disapproval stifle freedom of speech
Over the course of my tenure as teenage provocateur, your humble heretic has been called many things ““ ignorant, arrogant, pretentious, completely wrong. Such adjectives have mostly come from various religious folk aghast by my practice of treating nothing as sacred, but this of course comes with the territory of being a modern day heathen. And while I’ve always welcomed scorn and censure, there is one point of criticism to which I must object: that my writing is disrespectful ““ that I should censor myself so as to not offend.
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The United States should recognize Armenian Genocide to prevent similar crimes
On March 4, 2010, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives approved HR 252, which would formally recognize the catastrophic mass killings of Armenians at the beginning of the 20th century as genocide.
Protesters anger at campus officials over fee hikes is misplaced
On March 4, students across the UCs and across the nation protested against cuts to quality education and educational funding.