Friday, October 9

Holocaust course unexpectedly large

The atrocities of the Holocaust often disturb and repulse the sensibilities of most people. But if students had walked, or at least tried to walk, into Tuesday’s German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature lecture, one would deduce the subject matter to be much more alluring. Read more...


Spring could bring student-taught classes

Tyler Shores is a typical class-going, note-taking student at the University of California, Berkeley four days a week. But for 90 minutes each week, he steps on to the other side of the podium and becomes a lecturer, facilitator and highly regarded teacher in front of his peers. Read more...



Bush sets election year agenda

President George W. Bush opened his reelection bid Tuesday night along largely partisan lines as he defended the war in Iraq, pushed for further tax cuts, and nearly endorsed a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Read more...


College calls O’Brien dean

The UCLA College named Patricia O’Brien, current dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of California at Riverside, as its executive dean Tuesday. Read more...