Six months after raising their own monthly stipends, undergraduate student government officials unanimously passed a bylaw amendment Tuesday to bar future salary changes from taking immediate effect. Read more...
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February 5, 1:08 am
USAC bylaw amendment places restrictions on future stipend increases
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February 5, 1:08 am
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 his lecture “Africans in China.” “We live in a media-saturated world in which different issues and perspectives continually compete for our attention,” said Darnell Hunt, director of the UCLA Ralph J. Read more...
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February 5, 12:00 am
USAC passes resolution calling for reevaluation of company investment
The undergraduate student government unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling for UCLA and the University of California to divest from companies that invest in private prisons. Read more...
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February 4, 1:29 am
Veteran draws on personal experience in teaching, gay rights research
As he paced in front of a class of about two dozen students, William “Ajax” Peris appeared assured and calm. He displayed the same confident demeanor that helped him succeed at testing heat-seeking missiles and monitoring no-fly zones in Iraq throughout the 1990s, after the first Gulf War. Read more...
Photo: William Peris, 44, is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a teaching assistant at UCLA.
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February 4, 1:13 am
Proposal to change Afro-American Studies into department under review
A proposal to make the Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies into its own department is in its final stages of review almost a year after the proposal was originally submitted. Read more...
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February 3, 6:03 pm
UC president forms student veteran advisory group
University of California President Janet Napolitano announced Monday a new student veteran advisory group, another one of her efforts to connect with particular groups of students. Read more...
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February 3, 1:55 am
Bernard Nefkens, UCLA physics professor, remembered as innovative, inspirational
Bernard M. K. Nefkens, a world-renowned experimental elementary particle physicist who worked in the UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department for nearly 50 years, died Jan. 10 after being diagnosed with a form of dementia. Read more...
Photo: Bernard Nefken’s students said their UCLA physics professor was innovative in his teaching and let them carry out their own experiments in his class.