Wednesday, May 14

Student disability projects honored

Shareen Nizami was motivated to engage in disabilities studies after watching her younger brother struggle for years against unfair treatment by school administrators, who placed him in English as a second language classes and punished him for daydreaming, thinking he had ADD "“ Attention Deficit Disorder. Read more...

Photo: English student Michelle Tang (left) and political science student Shareen Nizami (right) won the Jessie Alpaugh Senior Prize in Disability Studies.


UCLA Peer Health Exchange gives health education

In many high school health classes, students might be put off by their teachers' teaching topics such as contraception and drug abuse. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA student group Peer Health Educators visits high schools throughout Los Angeles to educate students about health issues.



Ackerman Union’s hidden mural

On June 11, 1970, a small daily newspaper in Santa Monica ran a short story about a mural that had recently been completed in UCLA's Ackerman Union. Read more...

Photo: A UCLA student is arrested on campus during one of several protests that inspired the mural in Ackerman Union.






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