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Parking debt persists despite ticket revenues
As anyone who has ever parked at UCLA knows, parking tickets are a serious business – not to mention a serious source of revenue for UCLA transportation.
Faulty ticketing can be contested
Although Web site simplifies process, only small percentage of appeals receive hearings
For students who believe they have been wrongfully ticketed, paying $45 or more is not the only option.
Ethnic studies trying to maintain relevance
During the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, students at San Francisco State University walked out of class every day for five months to push for greater integration and acceptance of minority groups on campus.
Dedicated student volunteers find niche
Stephanie Chan doesn’t have time to stop volunteering.
Some solicitors breed mistrust
Representatives from some Bruin Walk solicitors are using dubious tactics to get money from students, and the tactics are corroding students’ trust in the charitable process.
Philanthropy events aid nonprofit charities
Fraternities, sororities creatively raise money for other organizations, boost public relations
Natalie Comba, Delta Delta Delta sorority’s philanthropy chair, realized UCLA students often want one thing after a long night out of partying: food.
Students stump on both sides of Iraq War
Months before launch of US military campaign, current Bruins were making war stances known
Mark Stefanos started many of his Friday nights in high school in typical fashion: piling into a car with some friends and heading into town.
Student groups seek veteran aid
Nick Salcedo remembers hearing bullets whiz by him – “they sound exactly like they do in the movies” – and having a rocket-propelled grenade shot directly at him while serving in Iraq.
For some, Iraq War hits close to home
Iraqi students at UCLA with family members still in Persian Gulf join campus movements for peace
Dina Mahmood, a third-year geography and environmental sciences student, has not been back to her family’s native Iraq since the war began, but she came close while visiting relatives in Syria this summer.
Student sees beyond immigration status
His mother, holding on to his trembling hand, prayed two rounds of rosaries for luck before the coyotes came.
Ernesto Rocha – now a third-year Chicana and Chicano studies and political science student – remembers waiting behind a large rock for hours until the men came to lead the family on a dangerous two-day march away from Mexico.
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