Christina Jenkins

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• Searching for a speech

  June 14, 2004 at midnight

  When the Boston Globe ran a photograph last month of Boston College graduates snoozing through their commencement speech, university outcry compelled the paper to apologize. It did, saying the decision ...

• True journalists change the world – and stay sane

  June 14, 2004 at midnight

  Like many of the students who join the paper to fill these pages, I once had a fascination with celebrities of a different sort. My own variety, distinct from the ...

• A closer look: Grads walk for varied reasons

  June 2, 2004 at midnight

  Walking across a temporary stage in Pauley Pavilion as the names of 2,000 classmates scroll across the Jumbotron isn’t exactly a picture of pomp and circumstance for every UCLA grad. ...

• Lakers in postseason, quarter almost over, and - oh yeah - a hate crime occurred at UC Irvine

  May 26, 2004 at midnight

  If you ask Chancellor Ralph J. Cicerone, he’ll tell you there was an “incident” at UC Irvine last Thursday night. If you ask anyone else, it was a hate crime ...

• Monday Commentary: Classical music sounds inaccessible – but it isn’t

  May 17, 2004 at midnight

  You’ve heard it before: The buzz says fans of classical music are snobs, posers or geriatric. The stereotypes are everywhere – and self-perpetuating. During the station’s pledge drive for donations ...

• Election week yields eclectic art, conversation and T-shirts

  May 12, 2004 at midnight

  Some fraction of 20,000 students woke up to Josh Lawson’s grinning mug this morning, and that’s not something that happens every day – just ask him. “It’s weird,” says the ...

• Third-year student killed in collision

  April 27, 2004 at midnight

  Alexandra Silina, a third-year economics student, died Friday morning in Studio City when the car she was riding in was struck by another vehicle. Silina, 20, was a transfer student ...

• Monday commentary: North Campus classes insult students’ abilities

  April 26, 2004 at midnight

  There’s this class. Statistics. A midterm on Tuesday. Not terribly surprising, as it’s fourth week, and he, the professor who clearly cares for his students, warned us a month ago. ...

• Monday commentary: Sorry Hahn, ‘Seabiscuit’ just can’t compete with the classics

  April 19, 2004 at midnight

  Atlas Shrugged,” one of the best-known college cult books there ever was, is a bit lonely these days. I saw a copy outside of the bookstore last week for the ...

• Monday commentary: And on our left we have ... a campus tour without the truth

  April 12, 2004 at midnight

  If you’ve ever taken an organized tour in a foreign country, you will remember the ubiquitous bubbly flag-waving guides who unfailingly skip the bad restaurants, ignore the shady neighborhoods, and ...