The students maintained they did not pose a danger and called on police to back down. Police confront protesters at UCLA Police descended on the encampment at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on 2 May, arresting students. They met with resistance from protesters, who had erected b...
public and shameless quality. As California’s governor, Ronald Reagan did use disgraceful rhetoric against the student movement of the 1960s, as when he said “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with. No more appeasement.” ...
To provide some solace for the distressed Jewish students, Rabbi Yossi of Chabad and Rabbi Anna of Hillel stood for hours yesterday in the center of the quad, just outside the encampment, acting as a magnet for about 25-30 of the students. The students did not shout and they did not c...
Cheryl Harris (UCLA)’s essay Whiteness as Property does pretty much what it says on the tin: rather than a social designation, a part of a code by which people are sorted and separated from each other, she proclaims whiteness as a thing that some people get to own and others do not....
Recent years, there have been many protesters on campus looking for diversity; as UCLA is University of Caucasians Lost among Asians, many minority groups are underrepresented. While I do think it’s great to have diversity, I think having the admission
The darkest part, though, from theFree Beaconstory, is this one: “When one student remained seated, according to students in the class, a UCLA administrator, whom theFree Beaconcould not identify, inquired about the student’s identity, implying that discipline could be on the table.” Sound...
MyShakeis a phone app that can sense earthquakes. This is a cool idea, one that others have tried and failed to perfect, but now it seems to be living the promise.Folks at UCLA Berkeley 0ffer a free bit of softwarefor your phone. It’s an accelerometer that “records earthquakes as the...
and others did pattern recognition research informally, during lunch hours.44Their ability to use the Test Memory Computer at Lincoln Laboratory to conduct machine learning experiments was made possible, in part, by the computer’s reduced use as a support for the Whirlwind Computer employed in the...
The measure controls redevelopment and limits warehouse sizes so the people of Northpoint can continue to live the way they did before the construction, while also protecting the nearby Great Salt Lake wetlands. Addressing the plan's issue One problem exists, though. Not all the ...
Emerson was everything Wall Street wanted in a publicly traded company. This was not the result of cutting to prosperity. They did it with great leadership and management. They way Sam and Ginni are running IBM is entirely different than the way Emerson is being run. ...