Monday, May 19

Lifelong learners: Retired couple audits UCLA classes

A couple sits in Perloff 1102, attentive and near the front of the lecture hall as a professor describes the relationship between jazz musicians and the Watts Riots of 1965. Read more...

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Peter and Barbara Rothholz, 83 and 79 years old, respectively, have been auditing classes at UCLA for many years. This quarter, they are taking an upper-division history course called “Jazz and the Political Imagination.”


Grad students plan action against changed policy

Graduate students discussed multiple ways to take action against recent changes to UCLA's leave of absence policy at a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon. Read more...

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The GSA Social Sciences Council and the UC Student-Workers Union held a meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss a recent policy change.





UCLA’s first ‘Test Tube’ baby to have own child

Almost three decades ago, Greta Woodka Timbrell was the first "test tube" baby born at UCLA Medical Center. Now, she is having a baby of her own "“ naturally. Read more...

Photo: Greta Woodka (left) was the first “test tube” baby born at UCLA Medical Center. Woodka, 28, is now pregnant with her own child. (Courtesy of Greta Woodka)




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