On Monday night of week seven, I stumbled upon a Facebook post sharing an article titled “Data, teachers’ allegations undermine Gompers’ college-ready promise.”
Gompers Preparatory Academy was the high school I graduated from.

Nothing is more stressful than seeing the class you need to graduate fill up, with no waiting list in sight.
That’s the case with seniors vying for the Global Health 100: “Global Health and Development” next quarter.

This summer, the stoves weren’t the only hot items in the dining halls. The department was under some serious heat, and now student dining workers are somehow still dealing with the fire.

It’s 9 a.m., and the professor begins class promptly. Papers ruffle, and the professor’s voice is heard amidst a chorus of coughs, sneezes and sniffles. It’s flu season, and for a campus as large as UCLA, that means sick students – and a lot of them.

Editor’s note: This column discusses the issues of sexual assault and rape.
Students are beginning or returning to UCLA and besides their grades and social lives, they must be on the lookout for sexual assault.

Sleep-deprived summer-session students were unpleasantly surprised by a poster last week which brazenly argued UCLA is racially biased because it admits more African-American students than it should.

At eight years old, Elisha Chan left her family and a familiar society behind in Hong Kong to pursue an education in the United States. She struggled to learn a new language in a country where she knew no one, but persevered because education was a priority for her family.

Manying Ng-Argudo’s family was at a mall in Ecuador when an earthquake struck. The mall’s electricity was cut and people began to jump from the second floor to the first in panic to avoid getting trapped on escalators and inside elevators.