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May 16, 2011 – Last week, the Persian community at UCLA Hillel hosted a “How to be Persian” event. Aside from eating food and learning Middle Eastern belly dance, attendees had the chance to ask relationship advice, focusing on dating from a Persian Jewish perspective.
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Last week, the Persian Community at UCLA Hillel brought students together for a night of Middle Eastern dancing and cooking. At the end, students discussed how religion and ethnicity play a role in dating. Later in the show, we talk with a couple from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds about how they make their relationship work.
And finally, on Saturday, six students took on the challenge course at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center. Reporter Rachel Garcia shadowed the group as it bonded through activities on the ground and in air.
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May 16, 2011 ““ Tucked away behind Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, the challenge course at UCLA offers towering poles, suspended cables and lessons in trust. The course is designed to foster teamwork among participants while pushing personal limits. Floormates from Rieber Vista and their friends spent Saturday morning helping each other walk on wires through the air.
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May 16, 2011 – Fourth-year Design | Media Arts student Matthew Miller’s parents have always been quick to shower him with support. Fifth-year Design | Media Arts student Cindy Chi’s picks on her for everything from grades to clothes. Matthew and Cindy are a couple at UCLA, and they share with reporter Helen Zhao how family background can affect intimate relationships. Born and raised in Orange County, Cindy did not have a typical American upbringing with her Taiwanese parents.
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A student told police that a man touched her breasts in a Rieber Court crosswalk on Sunday at about 5 p.m.
The suspect, described as a 20-year-old Asian man with “funky hair,” approached the student from behind while she walked in the crosswalk, according to a university police statement. He is likely a student, said UCPD sergeant Miguel Banuelos.
After he cupped the woman’s breasts, the suspect’s friend reportedly pulled him away, saying, “What’s wrong with you!”
The student said she thought the man was drunk or under the influence of drugs. She felt it necessary to report the incident but did not want to file an official police report, Banuelos said.
University police alerted the Office of Residential Life, and posters describing the incident were hung around the Hill as a warning to students.
Officials will investigate whether security cameras are stationed near the location of the incident, Banuelos said.
Jesse Cheng has resigned as student regent of the University of California.
Cheng, a fourth-year Asian-American studies student at UC Irvine, said he submitted his resignation Friday. A formal announcement from UC Board of Regents Chairman Russell Gould was released today, with Gould citing “personal reasons” for Cheng’s early departure from the board.
Public controversy engulfed Cheng in February after reports surfaced of his November arrest for sexual battery. Charges were not filed by his accuser, a UCLA graduate student who has gone by the name of “Laya.”
The UC Irvine Office of Student Conduct launched an investigation in response to the reports. The office has found Cheng responsible for “unwanted touching,” Cheng said.
At the March UC Board of Regents meeting, Gould said that a committee on governance would be monitoring Cheng and meet upon completion of campus review. Students and alumni had approached the board earlier that morning to call for his removal.
Cheng said his decision was more in response to the distraction of the controversy rather than the verdict form the Office of Student Conduct, he said. He added that the thought of resigning has been on his mind since the controversy first arose.
Part of the reason he held off, Cheng said, to ensure that Student-Regent Designate Alfredo Mireles would be able to move into a voting position before the official transfer of power in July.
No new cuts or policy changes for higher education were included in Gov. Jerry Brown’s revision of his budget proposal, released Monday.
In a press conference, Brown announced an unanticipated $6.6 billion in tax revenue but continued to stress the need for tax extensions.
The new revenue could cushion losses for the University of California over the summer when taxes expire in July, said Steve Boilard, higher education analyst for the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.