Ravi Doshi

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• UC forms commission to discuss going private

  Sept. 28, 2009 at 4:42 a.m.

  The University of California system is often considered one of the best systems of higher public education in the United States.
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  Market switches to Wednesday

  Aug. 17, 2009 at 2:50 a.m.

  Around 2 a.m. every Wednesday for the last couple of months, with the rest of Fresno asleep around him, Juan Plascencia has loaded up his truck with produce and rumbled out of town, headed south.

• Los Angeles Mayoral Election: David R. Hernandez

  Feb. 25, 2009 at midnight

  David R. Hernandez has been a community advocate and leader in Los Angeles for 20 years. He has 25 years of experience in the insurance industry and is a Combat ...

• Programs reach out to assist potential transfers

  Jan. 14, 2009 at 7:33 a.m.

  Last fall, UCLA received 15,245 applications from students hoping to transfer into the class of 2010. Many of those students were attracted through outreach efforts directed at them by the university. Each year, through programs such as the Transfer Alliance Program, the Student Transfer Outreach Mentorship Program and many others, the University makes a concerted effort to attract prospective transfers.

• Beginning of Afro-American studies

  Nov. 26, 2008 at 12:56 a.m.

  At the start of what was then known as “Negro History Week” in February 1967, members of the Black Student Union, then known as Harambee, lined Bruin Walk in silent protest

• Economy’s recent downward spiral may just be mild recession

  Oct. 8, 2008 at midnight

  The last year and a half has proven a tumultuous time for the United States economy. From the start of the subprime crisis in early 2007, to the more recent government bailout of Wall Street, economics has dominated the headlines in a manner not experienced in modern memory.

• UC workers approve strike

  May 27, 2008 at 2:08 a.m.

  With the support of its patient care and service worker members, the bargaining team for AFSCME Local Union 3299 served the University of California on Friday with notice that it will call a two-day strike on June 4 and 5, citing the inability to come to an agreement regarding worker wages at the bargaining table.

• Obama maintains lead

  March 5, 2008 at 2:58 a.m.

  With the Democratic Party’s nomination for president yet to be decided, Sen. John McCain swept the four March 4 primaries and clinched his party’s nomination for the presidency.

• Electing to work polls is tiring but valuable experience

  Feb. 6, 2008 at 1:14 a.m.

  At 7:30 a.m., with California polls already open for half an hour and Super Tuesday voting fully under way across the country, voters slowly trickled into their polling location on Strathmore Avenue.

• Obama rally fills Pauley Pavilion

  Feb. 4, 2008 at 2:35 a.m.

  Gray skies shrouded Westwood on Sunday, but inside Pauley Pavilion, spirits were high as people from across the Los Angeles area came together at a rally to support the presidential ambitions of Sen. Barack Obama.