Charlotte Hsu

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• Languages open doors to opportunities

  June 12, 2006 at midnight

  Hospitals are in constant need of interpreters to connect patients to doctors. The U.S. Department of Justice revealed in 2004 that the FBI had accumulated 120,000 hours of untranslated recordings ...

• No joke – beneath it all, real learning takes place

  June 12, 2006 at midnight

  I managed to avoid the dentist for four years, from freshman year to this past April. They discovered five holes in my teeth. That got me thinking. Here we are, ...

• New teachers overcome obstacles: Marjorie Clark

  June 1, 2006 at midnight

  Marjorie Clark is a white teacher in a Washington, D.C. high school where more than 95 percent of the students are black. She grew up in Albany, Ore., in a ...

• A life of languages

  April 25, 2006 at midnight

  Michael Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, took up French in 1956. It fulfilled a foreign language requirement at his Staten Island high school. Two years later, he began ...

• [Online Exclusive]: New intensive language program offered

  April 25, 2006 at midnight

  UCLA will offer a new intensive language program this summer that will use Los Angeles’ language-rich community in teaching students to speak, read and write. The program, “Language Intensives in ...

• Underground books record past

  Feb. 24, 2006 at midnight

  In the basement of Young Research Library, there is a place where books are pieces of history. A catalogue from the early 1900s touts masks depicting stereotypes of ethnic groups ...

• University launches a novel institution

  Feb. 24, 2006 at midnight

  Antiquarian booksellers and library staff in Southern California have been talking for years about starting up a rare book school on the West Coast. Now, the talk has ended. UCLA ...

• Illini editors suspended for printing cartoons

  Feb. 21, 2006 at midnight

  The letters just keep coming. They span the gamut of emotions: outrage, sympathy, support, indignation. There are hundreds of them. More than a week after controversial cartoons of the Prophet ...

• Web site fosters writing skills

  Feb. 9, 2006 at midnight

  Sex. Suicide. Memories and Mexico. Beijing. Why “Nobody Loves an Asian Boy.” These are some topics writers have tackled on Heelpress.com, a year-old online writing circle for college students and ...

• Student group’s food sales determined to be illegal

  Feb. 8, 2006 at midnight

  UCLA administrators put an end to a student group’s lunch program this week after they determined the group’s activity constituted an illegal sale of food on campus. Already about 50 ...