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...
CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS : Unflagging Controversy : Why did some protesters against Proposition 187 carry the red, white and green instead of the red, white and blue? To Latinos, it was prideful. To many Americans, it was insulting. TIMES STAFF WRITER It was a powerful campaign image: the red,...
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....
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...
See Tables14and15. Our findings remain unchanged. The overall sample size for the change models drop, too, on account of some missing data throughout the dataset. We also conducted a hot deck imputation on the missing data and re-estimated the analysis; our substantive findings did not ...
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...
on some things and not on others, and the media did not focus on the other shooting that took place at Jackson State, where two black youngsters were gunned down. And so, yeah, I think our job as historians is to bring out things that we did not get ordinarily in our history lessons...
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. ...
Article Why Hitler Did Not Have Atomic Bombs Manfred Popp Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Weberstr. 5, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany; popp@kit.edu Abstract: In the 75 years since the end of World War II there is still no agreement on the answer to the question of why the presumed race ...