The UCLA Registrar’s Office released information Thursday
that suggests a significant rise in the number of self-identified
Latina/o and Chicana/o UCLA students on academic probation since
the end of spring quarter 2003.

Westwood voters will weigh in on a myriad of issues Tuesday, one
of which will be determining the Democratic primary winner for the
state’s predominately liberal Assembly District 47 ““
which includes the UCLA campus.

Garment workers, students and community members gathered
Saturday afternoon in Santa Monica to protest clothing retailer
Forever 21’s alleged unfair labor practices and urged
shoppers to boycott the store popular among college students.

After a busy day that ended at 1:30 a.m., Hisham Mahmoud speaks
enthusiastically about his passion: educating others about his
culture.
As a respected leader in the community, Mahmoud ““ a
graduate student in Islamic studies at UCLA ““ is driven to
fight ignorance and help educate people about Islam.

From the past and present success of Bruin athletics to the
Undie Run, UCLA students are drawn to the traditions that define
university and student life.

Standing near the main eastern entrance of the newly remodeled
Student Activities Center, a group of students gathered to pay
tribute to the lives of a pair of student activists who died more
than three decades ago.

The atrocities of the Holocaust often disturb and repulse the
sensibilities of most people.
But if students had walked, or at least tried to walk, into
Tuesday’s German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature
lecture, one would deduce the subject matter to be much more
alluring.

About 200 protesters circled Wilshire Boulevard in front of the
French consulate Saturday to protest French President Jacques
Chirac’s support of a proposal banning religious headscarves
and other religious symbols from France’s state schools.

In a night filled with moving poetry, eclectic music and
poignant remembrances, an audience of some 600 gathered to remember
the life of Edward Said, a renowned and controversial intellectual,
last Saturday at Schoenberg Hall.

In keeping with worldwide tribute to an important intellectual,
memorial services for Edward W. Said, a prolific yet controversial
writer and supporter of the Palestinian movement, will be held at
UCLA on Saturday.