This quarter alone Kendal Drucker’s three textbooks cost her almost $400. Drucker, a second-year psychology student, is involved in the California Public Interest Research Group, or CALPIRG, which is working to get professors at UCLA to join a movement toward open-source textbooks and other affordable online course materials With the costs of textbooks rising, open-source […]
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Los Angeles film community compares new, old technology
The modern filmmaker must make a choice that 20 years ago, nobody may have even thought twice about: film or digital? Today’s filmmakers are making the switch to digital technologies to shoot their films, movie theaters are switching out old film projectors for digital systems and many are concerned for the future of film technology. […]
UCLA to celebrate Black History Month with lectures, exhibits
UCLA will celebrate Black History Month throughout February with a series of lectures and cultural exhibitions to enlighten the community about black culture and history. On Wednesday, African studies professor Adams Bodomo, from the University of Vienna, will speak on contemporary Africa/China relations and the increasing number of Africans visiting and settling in China in […]
UCLA football anticipates strong recruiting class on National Signing Day
After tying a school record in wins with 10 in the 2013-2014 season, UCLA football will soon get a glimpse at its future and a possibility to build on those 10 wins. Wednesday marks National Signing Day for college football when UCLA will see who the playmakers of its future could be. The Bruins’ renaissance […]
Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power to speak in separate UCLA lectures
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ambassador Samantha Power , the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, are scheduled to speak at UCLA in the next few weeks. UCLA invited the political figures to speak in separate campus lecture series because they are world-renowned human rights activists and prominent international figures who […]
UCLA students finalists in Disney Imagineering competition
In Rio de Janeiro’s vacant courtyards, four architecture graduate students see untapped potential. As they walk, the walls fade away, submerging them into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, their faces inches away from a dolphin’s elongated rostrum. As part of a design competition, four UCLA students envisioned this scene to represent the culture and […]
Students for Justice in Palestine opens Alex Odeh Memorial Library at UCLA
The library in Kerckhoff 146 blends into the background, but the books on the shelf are crisp, new and hand-picked for a specific reason. The books – which cover novels about Palestine to journals about current events in the Middle Eastern area– are neatly stacked in the single shelf. A wooden desk, a grocery bag […]