Menaka Fernando

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• The Bruin offers direction, even if it’s to the exit

  June 13, 2005 at midnight

  Everybody at the Daily Bruin talks about quitting. One more 16-hour day, and I’m outta here. If I get another C, the newspaper has to go. When my fingers automatically ...

• UCLA name, L.A. lifestyle marketable overseas

  April 5, 2005 at midnight

  As shoppers browse through rows of denims and khakis in the casual-apparel store in Guangzhou, China, there’s not much to distinguish it from an everyday GAP or Banana Republic in ...

• Director’s aid to AAP will not be considered

  March 21, 2005 at midnight

  Chancellor Albert Carnesale told students and staff Friday that the university would not weigh two decades of accomplishments in deciding how to sanction the Academic Advancement Program’s director for having ...

• Wounds revisited

  March 21, 2005 at midnight

  Fernando Suarez del Solar points to his dead son’s dirty combat boots and recalls the life of the young soldier, who died at age 20 two years ago. His only ...

• Professor may face university sanctions

  March 14, 2005 at midnight

  Students in the Academic Advancement Program are expressing support for their organization’s director, who could face sanctions for allegedly violating University of California policy by having a relationship with a ...

• Computing success

  March 10, 2005 at midnight

  At a time when the campus is mostly devoid of the buzz of UCLA students, a different buzz could be heard from the labs of Boelter Hall – the slight ...

• Star treatment

  March 7, 2005 at midnight

  She pulled up to the exclusive Henri’s Salon de Beauté in a black Excursion – the same one that drove Leonardo DiCaprio around Los Angeles during his stay in the ...

• Toxic town

  Feb. 28, 2005 at midnight

  During her internship in northern California this past summer, fifth-year political science student Karen Salazar asked a group of kids in her East Bay Area hometown to draw their neighborhood. ...

• A new way to learn

  Feb. 16, 2005 at midnight

  For about 25 U.S. college students studying in Shanghai, China, last summer, the term interdisciplinary study took on a whole new meaning. To study globalization in China’s booming economy, UCLA ...

• Psychedelic research

  Feb. 4, 2005 at midnight

  While participating in a sacramental ceremony in the Amazon basin of South America during the late 1980s, Dr. Charles Grob had a moment of realization about the power of psychedelic ...