As Jonathan Lehmann prepared to move from Paris to Los Angeles, he compiled a bag of items he no longer wanted, but he felt they should go to people who would appreciate them as much as he did.
Lehmann’s dilemma inspired him to create a Facebook-integrated website that would allow users to sell items on an online marketplace and give 85 percent of the proceeds to a charity of the seller’s choice.
This is not Lehmann’s first entrepreneurial business venture.
Shortly after arriving in China earlier this month, history Professor Eric Altice found himself trying to get his cleaning lady to stop teaching him how to use an ironing board and instead tell him the Chinese word for it.
The newly remodeled North Campus dining area opened for business on Monday. Coupled with the projected opening of the redesigned South Campus Student Center this summer, 2011 is set out to be a big year for Associated Students UCLA’s restaurants.
Not all classes at UCLA are taught indoors.
Every week, the students in Professor Brian Walker’s “Introduction to Political Theory” honors section, dubbed “Philosophy Walk,” trek on average a mile and a half around either the campus or Westwood Village while discussing the core values of the humanist tradition.
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