Sunday, April 19

Students for Justice in Palestine opens Alex Odeh Memorial Library at UCLA

The library in Kerckhoff 146 blends into the background, but the books on the shelf are crisp, new and hand-picked for a specific reason. The books – which cover novels about Palestine to journals about current events in the Middle Eastern area– are neatly stacked in the single shelf. Read more...

Photo: Kaleb Herman Adney, a fourth-year history student and director of resources and education of Students for Justice in Palestine, peruses a book in the recently established Alex Odeh Memorial Library in Kerckhoff 146. The library, named in memory of a Palestinian-American civil rights leader, contains literature particularly on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.




UCLA medical student, Project RISHI treats leprosy patients in India

A patient climbed onto the table in the Indian village clinic and began unwrapping his bandages in front of UCLA medical student Nikhil Nadkarni. As the bandages came off bit by bit, Nadkarni began to get uneasy. Read more...

Photo: Nikhil Nadkarni, a UCLA medical student, is currently the adviser for Project Rural India Social and Health Improvement chapters at UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Davis.



Sotomayor speaks at UCLA law school on succeeding in face of adversity

United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke to students at the UCLA School of Law on Tuesday about overcoming adversity to achieve higher education, a theme that resonated with several students. Read more...

Photo: United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talked with UCLA law students Tuesday about some of her personal experiences in overcoming adversity.


Obama focuses on economic gap in State of the Union address

President Barack Obama made expanding economic opportunity for the lower and middle classes the main focus of his State of the Union address Tuesday. The federal deficit is smaller and the economy has largely recovered since the 2008 recession, but Obama said most of the economy’s gains have gone to the rich, not the poor. Read more...