Wednesday, April 29




Holistic process looks beyond low SATs, GPAs

As chair of the Academic Senate Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools, I want to address the claim in two recent Daily Bruin articles ("Admitted students' scores show disparity," News, May 2; "Score gaps stir dispute over holistic approach," News, May 2) that the disparity in scores between black and Latino 2007 admits, on the one hand, and Asian and Caucasian, on the other, is an indication that UCLA's new holistic review is unfair. Read more...



Mantras can’t make miracles

Film director David Lynch has the answer to the itching question of how to stop school shootings forever "“ he's going to teach 1 million students transcendental meditation. I'm almost waiting for Tom Cruise to announce his plan to convert a second million to Scientology. Read more...