Wednesday, May 6


Students protest donation restriction

As the “Get the Red Out” blood drive went on in the James West Alumni Center, students from the “Fight to Give Life” campaign protested outside what they call discriminatory measures by the Food and Drug Association. Read more...


Peeper incidents reported

Residents of some off-campus apartments in Westwood have reported seeing a peeper looking inside their windows over the past few weeks ““ incidents which are similar to at least five prowler and peeper cases that were reported over the summer. Read more...


Students share their areas of expertise

Adham El-Sherif and Kevin Duffel skateboarded down the aisles in the Northwest Campus Auditorium. They weren’t there to skateboard for leisure, but to discuss an issue they call “skateboardingism.” “Skateboardingism,” which they defined as discrimination against skateboarders, was one of nine topics that students presented Wednesday night at an event called The Isms Project, presented by the Office of Residential Life. Read more...


Bruins’ lobbying goes beyond campus bounds

After studying drug regulations in their public policy class, Eric Gorin-Regan and Daniel Walter were hooked ““ on public policy, that is. One year later, their interest would take them and fellow student Matt Nazareth to Washington, D.C., to lobby about drug policy issues as part of a developing political student group called Students for Sensible Drug Policy, or SSDP. Read more...


Middle East series goes on

As’ad AbuKhalil, a professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus, spoke on campus Tuesday about the current state of Lebanese politics as part of a series dealing with the current situations in the Middle East. Read more...


Students discuss LGBT, HIV issues

In an event called the “Rainbow Dialogues” held by the undergraduate student government and the Queer Alliance on Tuesday, more than 20 students were infected with HIV ““ at least figuratively. Read more...