USAC election season never fails to be a mix of crazy, stressful and fun. This year we get a double dose of elections mania, starting with a fall special election third week for the vacated general representative position and for the transfer representative position that was created last spring, along with a number of additional […]
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Album Review: ‘Hungry Ghosts’
Remember that big 64-pack of crayons back in kindergarten? With so many choices in hand, it was always tempting to keep adding color after color and layer after layer of vibrant wax onto the page. But there was that tipping point – that brink when the barrage of color stopped adding to the art and […]
UCLA swim team claims 143-104 win in season opener against WSU
It was an auspicious start for the UCLA swim team. The Bruins began their season Friday by winning their first eight races in a dual meet with Washington State, finishing with a 143-104 win. Overall, the Bruins won 11 of the 14 events at Spieker Aquatics Center, with junior Katie Kinnear and junior Arlyn Upshaw […]
Bo Knows: Wins against key teams essential for football program to advance
Full disclosure: I grew up a crazed fan of Cal football. Nearly every day, I wore a Cal shirt, Cal shorts and a Cal hat. I even owned a pair of Cal boxers, weirdly. If you were a fan of college football during the mid-2000s, you were probably familiar with the Cal teams I watched […]
Petition claims AMCHA’s efforts limit academic freedom
Several UCLA professors signed a petition calling for a pro-Israel organization to stop what they perceive to be a censoring of classes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, claiming the organization has restricted academic freedom on campus. David Myers, chair of the UCLA Department of History who co-authored the petition with Steven Zipperstein, a professor at Stanford, […]
Submission: Higher ed faculty requires diversity
By 2040, nearly one out of every four U.S. citizens will identify as Hispanic. But if current statistics hold, many of them won’t graduate from high school. Low-income Hispanic students will attend schools that offer fewer opportunities and resources than the schools of wealthier students. Hispanics will complete college at lower rates than their counterparts […]
UCLA receives $3M grant to help lessen effects of secondhand smoke
UCLA researchers will receive a $3 million grant to counteract the effects of secondhand smoke among low-income black and Latino families in Los Angeles, officials announced last week. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will give the grant to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research over the next three years. The center […]