A recently announced study abroad initiative aims to increase the number of University of California students who study abroad by 20 percent in the next five years. The UC Education Abroad Program and the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit organization, are working together to double the number of students in the United States who […]
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Pac-12 challenges prepare men’s golf for upcoming NCAAs
It wasn’t some cartoonish desert mirage, making them seem closer than they were. What the leaderboard reflected was accurate. By the end of the 36-hole day one, the Bruins found themselves 24 strokes behind eventual winners Stanford. The leaderboard read Stanford (-2) and UCLA (+22) as darkness descended on the desert, suspending play. Nothing got […]
Editorial: Year’s politics begets question of what USAC role should be
The tenure of the 2013-2014 Undergraduate Students Association Council was a boom-and-bust cycle, marked by the highs of successful inter-office projects and the lows of persistent missteps in transparency and procedure. More often than not, it was the failures in decision-making and collaboration that set the tone at the council table. Controversies such as the […]
Napolitano submits testimony about research funding to U.S. Senate
University of California President Janet Napolitano submitted testimony Monday to a U.S. Senate hearing, calling for increased federal support for research. The hearing, “Driving Innovation Through Federal Investments” taking place Tuesday, will collect data and analysis on the status of federal investments in research and innovation projects. The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations will facilitate […]
Movie Review: ‘Blue Ruin’
Few genres evoke sympathy for protagonists with insatiable bloodlust the way revenge movies do. Utterly unrealistic and dementedly satisfying, revenge films capture a simplistic desire for a world in which the weak successfully punish the powerful, preserving justice in the face of evil. “Blue Ruin” takes the opposite approach, in which plans of vengeance do […]
Movie Review: ‘Last Passenger’
Audiences don’t seem to be flocking to the cineplex for realism anymore. Whereas the believable epic “Gone with the Wind” was once the highest-grossing film of all time, so was the more fictionalized “Jaws” after it and, more recently, “Avatar.” Had “Last Passenger,” the debut feature from British director Omid Nooshin, come out at the […]
Gymnast Samantha Peszek to return for final year of eligibility
Redshirt junior Samantha Peszek will return to compete for UCLA gymnastics next season, UCLA announced Wednesday. Peszek had previously been unsure whether she would elect to stay for her final year of NCAA eligibility. Peszek missed the 2013 season after suffering an Achilles injury. “The opportunity to do gymnastics one more year is a privilege […]