Friday, May 1

Second-year RAs step up to help lead the Hill

Strolling down the hall on the fifth floor of Hedrick Summit, Taylor Briglio casually chats and jokes with residents as they prepare to go to a floor dinner. The environmental science student is one of a minority of second-year resident assistants on the Hill. Briglio decided in November of his first year to apply to become an RA, appreciating the sense of community his own RAs created the year before. Although he served on floor government in Courtside his first year, Briglio said he didn't expect to be a resident assistant by his second year. Briglio was initially chosen as an alternative applicant. Read more...

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Taylor Briglio has been one of a higher-than-average number of second-year RAs hired this year to account for this year’s large freshman class.



UC President Mark Yudof reaches out to high schools

University of California President Mark Yudof spoke to an audience of East Los Angeles high school students Monday to reaffirm the UC's commitment to financial accessibility for students. Read more...

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UC President Mark Yudof spoke at Roosevelt High School about pursuing higher education.



In Vietnam, two disparate orphanages aim to achieve a common goal

The shirtless 17-year-old, engulfed by a mess of bodies and flailing limbs, jabbed his bare foot at a soccer ball pinned between bamboo stalks. Lanh reached down, grabbed the ball with his hands and booted it upfield with a grin. Game on. Read more...

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The SOS Children’s Village in Quang Bình Province is an internationally funded orphanage that is comprised of 12 homes, each with about 10 children and one caretaker. The orphanage grows its own fruits and vegetables and sends the children to a local school, creating opportunities for social mobility.


Clinging to Hope

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam "”mdash; Defeated, the mother stands in the street with her young daughter. "I'd like to go home," the 7-year-old whispers, her tiny arms clinging to a giant stuffed bear. The mother and daughter had traveled 13 hours by bus from central Vietnam to one of the country's leading hospitals, only to be sent away by the doctors. Hien Thu Thi Vo's congenital heart defect would go untreated. Read more...

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Vui Thi Nguyen and her 7-year-old daughter, Hien, prepare to leave Ho Chi Minh City after days of tests and waiting for news of Hien’s heart condition and impending surgery. The pair will travel 13 hours by bus to return to Gia Lai Province after being told the young girl is too weak for surgery.