About 40 students started high school as the inaugural ninth-grade class at the Horace Mann UCLA Community School last week.
Horace Mann, which originally taught only sixth to eight grade, added the ninth-grade class as part of a February agreement between the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the Los Angeles Unified School District to work together to revitalize Horace Mann Middle School in South Los Angeles, said Christine Shen, director of the UCLA Community Schools Initiative.
Printing kiosks have replaced all printers in learning centers on the Hill as of Friday.
UCLA Residential Life replaced the old printers in all of the residential learning centers with Wepa printing kiosks, which allow students to print files uploaded from cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox.
The Westwood Community Council meets several times a year to discuss issues relevant to the Westwood Village business and residential community.
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Janet Turner, field representative and constituent services of Congressman Ted Lieu, said the post office recently improved training for mail carriers and the Enterprise Customer Care system, which helps accurately locate packages.
Students now have access to 10 new printers on the Hill 24 hours a day.
The Residential Life learning centers and UCLA Housing and Hospitality Services collaborated to implement printing kiosks at various places on the Hill over winter break, said UCLA spokesperson Rebecca Kendall.
Bill Dorfman transformed people’s smiles through dental surgeries when he was featured on the television show “Extreme Makeover.”
“What I realized is, when you save a lot of teeth, you save a smile,” Dorfman said.
Maryam Shehata saw factory employees crowded into poorly lit rooms, working even through their breaks, when she walked through a manufacturing company in Hong Kong.
“In general, there was an atmosphere of disconnect,” said Shehata, a third-year gender studies student.
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