Wednesday, June 24

Apartment Fair helps students with apartment hunting in Westwood

Long Story Short: Students search for low prices, close distance at USAC apartment fair

Money and location come up again and again as student priorities during the apartment search. How do landlords in Westwood Village respond? [1:43]

"Long Story Short: Students search for low prices, close distance at USAC apartment fair"

Carina Martin recently spent hours wandering around Westwood searching for the perfect apartment. Read more...


New UC-wide holistic admissions policy approved

San Diego "”mdash; Tierra Moore applied to UCLA in the fall of 2008 with a 3.4 GPA. Read more...

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Third-year global studies and political science student Tierra Moore spoke at the UC Regents meeting Wednesday to express her support for the holistic viewing policy in the UC application process.




Professor Stuart Biegel will lecture on his findings about pre-college LGBT discrimination at UCLA School of Law’s ‘The Right to be Out’

LGBT students report varying temperatures in UCLA's climate of acceptance

December 23, 2010 – Several suicides of LGBT high school and college students sparked a flurry of media attention last year. What’s the climate at UCLA? Do LGBT students feel accepted? [3:20]

"LGBT students report varying temperatures in UCLA's climate of acceptance"

Armando Huipe had known for more than seven years that he was gay, but he did not come out after his high school graduation. "I was playing a role at school and at home," said Huipe, a fourth-year English student and president of Delta Lambda Phi, UCLA's fraternity for gay, bisexual and progressive men. Read more...



The English Major Rewritten: Changes will shift focus from specific writers to eras, themes in literature

English department shifts curriculum focus toward contemporary works

January 18, 2011 – English students entering UCLA next fall will have a new set of requirements. The Academic Senate recently approved changes which refocus the curriculum toward contemporary texts. [1:30]

"English department shifts curriculum focus toward contemporary works"

After years of debate, the English department will be nixing some existing courses, introducing some new ones and implementing new curriculum requirements for fall 2011. Read more...



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