Hungry students and their supporters sit for the seventh day in front of University of California at Berkeley’s California Hall. The students asked University Chancellor Robert Birgeneau yesterday to reinstate fired ethnic-studies staff members. “We’re still here, we’re still fighting and basically, we’re not going anywhere,” said a weary- looking, third-year Native American studies major,…
As of May 4, students and supporters at UC Berkeley have engaged in a hunger strike that has lasted 176 hours. The hunger strike is to protest the firing of several ethnic-studies staff members. The staff members were fired in response to an audit of university-wide operations carried out by consulting firm Bain and Company.…
I logged onto URSA and checked the cost for next year. The total was $27,000+. Some people are worried about Judgment Day on Saturday, and all I can think of are fee increases and another huge student protest next year. I am a student. I am involved in extracurriculars. I have to work more than 20…
Japanese earthquake victims are still receiving assistance from their friends across the ocean. The Thousand Hearts Benefits Concert will include a collection of singers, artists, and celebrities that hope to raise funds for the victims of the Japanese earthquake. The concert will be on the 23rd of April and will take place at the Pasadena…
On April 19th, UCLA Asian Pacific Alumni brought in Ted Chen, news anchor from KNBC Channel 4 News and UCLA alumnus, as the keynote speaker. He described Covel Commons, the conference’s venue, as a beautiful building. He recalled living in Sproul Hall and walking all the way to Dykstra Hall every weekend to eat food because Covel…
Sonia Rai is a 24-year-old South Asian-American and a UC Irvine graduate who has been recently diagnosed with AML (acute myelogenous leukemia), which is cancer of the blood. A bone marrow transplant is her only hope for survival, yet the odds of finding a match are 1 in a million for South Asian-Americans. According to…