Monday, May 4

Jewish student protection advised

After receiving reports from various Jewish groups that anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiments are rampant on college campuses, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted this week to recommend that the Department of Education take steps to protect Jewish students. Read more...


Market move under dispute

As the Westwood Farmers’ Market looks to relocate after its closure last week, some Village business owners said they want the market to change before it returns to Westwood. Read more...


Science & Health: Mumps eruptions multiply among Iowa college students

A recent outbreak of mumps concentrated among college-age students in Iowa has many young adults, doctors and administrators across the country concerned. As of Monday, there were 245 confirmed cases of mumps in Iowa, 21 percent of which were infections among college students, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. Read more...


UCLA gear sells well

The factory was notified, the designs were approved. All the Associated Students of UCLA needed was a men’s basketball victory Monday. But with UCLA’s loss to Florida, the T-shirts that would have said UCLA was the 2006 NCAA men’s basketball champion did not get the chance to be pressed. Read more...


Student-led seminars get underway

Despite some initial worries about enrollment problems, UCLA’s first student-led seminars by and large went off without a hitch. The seminars are the result of the new Undergraduate Student Initiated Education program, in which student facilitators teach one-unit seminars on a topic of their choice. Read more...


Divestment team heads to capital

After a successful Sudan divestment campaign at the University of California, members of the UC Sudan Divestment Taskforce plan to head to Sacramento tonight to begin their next campaign, this time working alongside influential California politicians. Read more...


Drug felonies shouldn’t close doors to education

Murder and rape are pretty heinous crimes, but according to the U.S. Congress, felony drug possession is the absolute worst of the worst. At least, that’s the message we can glean from a provision in the Higher Education Act, which bars students who have been convicted of possessing or selling drugs from receiving federal financial aid or student loans. Read more...