When high school math teacher Marty Romero accepted the UCLA
math department’s offer to teach classes in Westwood for a
year, he thought it would be a lot easier than the 40-hour weeks at
Wilson High School in Los Angeles.

After nearly three months as the new vice chancellor of student
affairs, Janina Montero is continuing to formulate ideas for
improving student life at UCLA as she familiarizes herself with her
new surroundings.

It’s summertime and the living’s easy – but not as
easy as many students taking summer classes at UCLA thought it
would be.
Students who choose to take regular UCLA classes in one of two
condensed six-week sessions often find the classes more intense
than classes taken during the regular academic year ““ despite
a presumption that summer courses are easier.

At universities across the country, expenses never seem to stop
piling up, and buying textbooks is no exception.
Along with online bookstores and auctioning forums, UCLA offers
ways for students to keep some textbook money in their pockets.

For many UCLA students, a smaller community within the student
body provides them with the support necessary to complete their
degrees. These students often choose to cap their college
experience with a special community graduation ceremony.

Thousands of miles away from the Middle East, few members of the
UCLA community have a direct connection with the Iraq conflict.
But UCLA alumnus and die-hard Bruin athletics fan Sameer Bakhda
does.

The Dashew International Center for Students and Scholars
honored a leader in the Spanish-speaking community at their largest
fundraising event of the year Thursday night.
Jose Molina, chairman of Continental Broadcasting, received the
2003 Neil H.

The University of California, Berkeley’s recent ban on
students from SARS-affected countries studying at the campus this
summer has members of the local community wondering if UCLA will
make a similar announcement.

While fighting continues in Israel, Jewish student groups this
week will focus on celebrating the country’s 55th anniversary
and educating the campus about Middle East issues.

The University of California suspended its summer Education
Abroad Program in Beijing on Friday, citing the continued danger of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
The announcement comes a little more than two weeks after the UC
suspended current EAP operations in Beijing, asking its 44 students
to return to the United States.