July 18, 2014 For the second consecutive year, the UC regents board is embroiled in an unnecessary and counterproductive controversy over the views of its student representatives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On Wednesday, the regents voted to confirm the selection of Abraham “Avi” Oved, a UCLA economics major who will begin his senior year this…
Admissions were frozen in 2007, awaiting a reorganization. But that hasn’t happened, and students fear that the program could simply be allowed to die. On Friday, several dozen students rallied to support it, gathering outside a meeting of a faculty panel considering recommendations aimed at ending the admissions suspension. The students, mostly members of the…
Kathy Chin, while a senior at UCLA majoring in Psychobiology and Women’s Studies, originally published an article on the hijab in Al-Talib, the newsmagazine for the Muslim Students’ Association at UCLA. In the article, she notes her experiences in adopting the hijab and the responses concerning importance society places on female hair. Originally cutting her…
