Wednesday, May 6

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.


1960s UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement inspires current change

On May 13, 1960, a group of UC Berkeley students unofficially started the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, as they protested a meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee taking place at San Francisco City Hall. Read more...

Photo: Berkeley plans to celebrate the unofficial start of the Free Speech Movement, a sit-in at Sproul Hall that occurred over 40 years ago.