The first Westwood Live event of the school year will include outdoor music and a new coupon system, with organizers hoping to attract more students and create more of a "block party" atmosphere. Read more...
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October 20, 12:19 am
First Westwood Live of the school year takes to the streets
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October 20, 12:15 am
USAC encourages political voice in voter registration drive
A small group of students gathered in Bruin Plaza to listen to live music during a voter registration event sponsored by the undergraduate student government Wednesday. The event, organized by the Cultural Affairs Commission and the External Vice President's office of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, marked the beginning of the voter registration drive for the 2012 presidential race. Read more...
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The Ten Thousand, a band featuring five UCLA students and alumni, performed during the USAC voting drive Wednesday in Bruin Plaza.
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October 20, 12:10 am
UCLA Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology program facilitates cooperation with Asian schools
As an undergraduate student at Nanjing University in the city of Nanjing, China, Siyi Xu loved to use the large radio telescope located high in the mountains of western China. Read more...
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October 19, 2:29 am
Heart of the Problem: Emotion captured through snapshots
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October 19, 2:15 am
Human connection says more than words
On the other side of the world, I often found myself at a loss for words. With no working knowledge of the language, I was at the mercy of my interpreter and the students of Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach to hear the stories of the local Vietnamese. Luckily, the details weren't lost in translation. But sometimes, I was on my own. Read more...
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A Vietnamese orphan boy at Thiên Bình Orphanage plays with a soccer ball given to him by students of Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach.
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October 19, 2:11 am
Emotion captured through snapshots
I was drawn to the blue tinge of her fingers and toes. The picked bug bites. The zipper-like scar in the center of her sternum. I noticed something new about Hien Thu Thi Vo with every minute that passed. Read more...
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The students of Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach spent two days with 7-year-old Hien Thu Thi Vo, one of their sponsored heart patients, at University Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Hien’s condition has necessitated countless hospital visits throughout her lifetime. Hien, who had previous heart surgery that failed to correct her condition, tires easily and is forbidden to go to school by her doctors.
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October 19, 2:04 am
Beyond the Bandage Solution
HUE, Vietnam "”mdash; Small groups of students huddled together, crying. One woman stormed off with a shriek of frustration. "It's not fair!" The students of Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach had just been given the news that the medical clinics they had planned and looked forward to all year had been shut down by the local government. Read more...
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Fourth-year biochemistry student Steven Pham and other members of Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach console each other after discussing the local government’s shut down of their medical clinics in Hue, Vietnam.