Friday, April 10



Motherhood or career: panel discusses dilemma

Watch your child take his first step or admire your name as it gleams on the door of a luxurious corner office? The trouble many college-aged women have with this question was addressed by a panel discussion Wednesday evening. Read more...



Mentors mix culture, learning

When Carrie Martell had to teach marine biology to American Indian students at the Torres Martinez Tribal TANF community center on Wilshire Boulevard, she built a lesson on knowledge typically absent from the average high school textbook. Read more...


No room for faculty raises in budget

UCLA faculty and staff were told to expect a year without a pay raise Thursday, as Vice Chancellor of Finance Steve Olsen warned the campus could lose $25 million in the next fiscal year. Read more...


Meaning of King’s dream debated

Seventy-four years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, and 35 years after his death, millions accept his wife’s assertion that he was “America’s greatest champion of racial justice and equality.” King’s passionate speeches and powerful displays of non-violent civil disobedience galvanized the civil rights movement, paved the way for the end of segregation in the United States, and expanded rights for all minorities. Read more...