Monday, July 13

In the news:

Series sends students out into the reel world

Deteriorated and forgotten heroic films, classic Hollywood movies and old home videos have come back to life at various screenings at UCLA. Providing students a glimpse into films from the silent era through the 1980s, Hollywood studios are working together with UCLA’s Film and Television Archive and the Moving Image Archive Studies graduate program to take restored films of the past and screen them to the public. Read more...


Facebook plays role in USAC campaigns

Students in years past have become used to the barrage of fliers and campaign slogans on campus that accompany elections for the undergraduate student government, but this year candidates have found a new way to advertise to UCLA voters. Read more...


[A Closer Look] An alternative view of education

Virginia Myers, a third-year American Indian student at UCLA, grew up in a home with no electricity or telephones and spent the first nine years of her education in a three-classroom schoolhouse on a reservation along the Klamath River in Northern California. Read more...


An economic tradition

His name may not be as well known as John Wooden, but Armen Alchian is arguably just as much a part of UCLA history as the longtime men’s basketball coach. Read more...