Friday, May 15

Fraternity celebrates anniversary

Members of UCLA’s first historically black fraternity gathered with 30 other students Wednesday night to participate in a tantric yoga workshop, one of several events being held this week to celebrate the group’s eightieth anniversary. Read more...


Heal the Bay acquires center

UCLA relinquished control of the Ocean Discovery Center in Santa Monica last month after lengthy talks with the center’s new parent organization, Heal the Bay. The center, which opened in September 1996 with the aim of providing hands-on learning for schoolchildren during the week, experienced difficulty attracting visitors on the weekend, said John Sandbrook, assistant provost for the College of Letters & Science. Read more...


Students recognize genocide

It has been almost 90 years since the Armenian genocide began, but according to many Armenians, justice has not been served. Today, UCLA students and people across the globe will remember the 1.5 million Armenians allegedly exterminated by Ottoman Turks between 1915 and 1922. Read more...


Letters

Discrimination against Greek system is unacceptable I find it interesting that a main point of the submission, “Denim Day helps to change stereotypes of sexual assault” (April 22), was an argument relating fraternities to date rape. Read more...



Letters to the Editor

Faculty vote bewildering It’s astonishing that the faculty would choose to vote against the war after its remarkable success. It’s amazing that they felt the war to be an appropriate matter upon which to collectively express their views. Read more...