Alexa Vaughn

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• Transportation costs pose problem for grads

  June 10, 2007 at 12:09 a.m.

  As he makes plans to begin his acting career in Los Angeles next year, graduating senior Justin Streichman said he is still uncertain about whether to purchase a car and what transportation choices are available.

• Labs scramble for funds as grants dry up

  May 30, 2007 at 1:10 a.m.

  UCLA health research lab directors are finding that an increasing amount of their time is being taken away from the search for the next medical breakthrough in order to balance lab budgets.

• Campaign urges students to vocalize need for buyout

  May 10, 2007 at 12:30 a.m.

  In an effort to support a buyout of next year’s 7 to 10 percent student fee hike and increase funding for academic-preparation programs, student leaders urged UCLA students on Bruin Walk this week to call and write state legislators.

• Increased royalties threaten Internet radio

  April 27, 2007 at 1 a.m.

  Internet radio – an often commercial-free forum for independent music – is undergoing a revolution as the industry faces new music royalty rates.

• UC considering exchange program

  April 17, 2007 at 1:34 a.m.

  In order to increase student diversity at the University of California, discussions for new student exchange programs with other American colleges have started, said university officials last week. The programs ...

• A concerted call to action

  April 11, 2007 at 12:56 a.m.

  Students crowded Ackerman Grand Ballroom on Tuesday night to see and listen to speakers and musicians at the first Mighty Mic Human Rights Awareness Concert, an event benefiting several human ...

• Paper looks to break out of mold

  April 11, 2007 at 12:51 a.m.

  During their first year as roommates at UCLA, Cory Fischer and Joel Abramovitz had a dream: to get students stressed by politics and the anxieties of academic competition to stop ...

• Interning too costly for some students

  April 6, 2007 at 12:30 a.m.

  Out of approximately 600 students who applied, 80 were accepted by CBS News last summer, where they worked full time for 10 weeks on various programs while living in either ...

• News accuracy in covering Israel-Lebanon conflict questioned

  April 4, 2007 at 12:26 a.m.

  International journalists and professors dissected Winston Churchill’s old saying “history is written by the victors” at a daylong conference examining last summer’s war between Lebanon and Israel on Tuesday. During ...

• Marriage rates rising with education

  April 2, 2007 at 1:26 a.m.

  Today, many UCLA undergraduate students are coming back from their spring break. Few, however, are coming back from a honeymoon. Irina Capuano, a third-year psychology and Russian studies student, is ...