Hospitals are in constant need of interpreters to connect
patients to doctors. The U.S. Department of Justice revealed in
2004 that the FBI had accumulated 120,000 hours of untranslated
recordings potentially related to terrorism.

I managed to avoid the dentist for four years, from freshman
year to this past April. They discovered five holes in my teeth.
That got me thinking.

Marjorie Clark is a white teacher in a Washington, D.C. high
school where more than 95 percent of the students are black.
She grew up in Albany, Ore., in a rural, white, middle-class
community before attending UCLA.

Michael Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literatures,
took up French in 1956. It fulfilled a foreign language requirement
at his Staten Island high school.
Two years later, he began learning German.

UCLA will offer a new intensive language program this summer
that will use Los Angeles’ language-rich community in
teaching students to speak, read and write.
The program, “Language Intensives in L.A.,” will
feature classes in seven tongues: Spanish, Arabic and Russian,
along with Amharic, spoken in Ethiopia, Catalan, spoken around
Barcelona in Spain, and Swahili and Yoruba, spoken in Tanzania and
Nigeria, respectively.

Antiquarian booksellers and library staff in Southern California
have been talking for years about starting up a rare book school on
the West Coast.
Now, the talk has ended.

In the basement of Young Research Library, there is a place
where books are pieces of history.
A catalogue from the early 1900s touts masks depicting
stereotypes of ethnic groups and races: Italians, Japanese,
Jews.

The letters just keep coming.
They span the gamut of emotions: outrage, sympathy, support,
indignation. There are hundreds of them.
More than a week after controversial cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad appeared in the campus newspaper at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Daily Illini’s inboxes are
still flooded with mail from readers supporting or condemning the
decision to run the drawings.

Sex. Suicide. Memories and Mexico. Beijing. Why “Nobody
Loves an Asian Boy.”
These are some topics writers have tackled on Heelpress.com, a
year-old online writing circle for college students and alumni.

UCLA administrators put an end to a student group’s lunch
program this week after they determined the group’s activity
constituted an illegal sale of food on campus.