Thursday, May 15

Novel ‘Stein, Stoned’ released by UCLA lecturer

Over the weekend, Hal Ackerman was on the East Coast, traveling from bookstore to bookstore, promoting his new book,"Stein, Stoned." Come Monday, the UCLA lecturer was back in Rolfe Hall, teaching his eight graduate students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. "Pick a card, any card," Ackerman said with a slight smile, spreading a deck of playing cards on the table before his students. Read more...

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UCLA lecturer Hal Ackerman from the School of Theater, Film and Television wrote a book called “Stein, Stoned” about a crime-fighting former marijuana activist. (courtesy of David Chute)


Career center offers class on postgraduation career options

Personality is an aspect rarely consulted when students consider which career to pursue.
Lula Fecadu, a fourth-year economics student, recently discovered after taking a personality test in a new UCLA class that level of extroversion may influence which careers she is best fit for. "I never actually took (personality) into account," Fecadu said. Read more...


UCLA campus a political hot spot

Former UCLA student Gabe Rose distinctly remembers March 5, 2007, when more than 1,000 students crowded shoulder-to-shoulder in Kerckhoff patio to hear Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards speak about the moral responsibility of the United States. Read more...







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