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...hoping things would come together this weekend, and we would do something special,” Sheldon said. “While top eight may have been a bit ambitious, I think it was a good goal for Harvard to have.” The second-ranked Bruins of UCLA won the tournament by 19 strokes over the Boilermakers of Purdue. Despite the struggles this weekend, the Crimson believes it is headed in the right direction for next year, as it attempts to stay atop the Ivy League for a third consecutive year. “The team has gotten...
...Indeed, she seems to have as many interests as she has bows on her bow shelf. This year she is taking classes to get her license for ham radio, a type of radio communications popular amongst hobbyists. After graduation, she plans to work in a nanotechnology lab at UCLA. “I really like tiny, tiny things,” she says, referencing an animation she made about a series of miniature worlds in jars and explaining the apparent discrepancy between cartoons and nanobots. The notion of impassable boundaries between disciplines seems to strike her as absurd...
...number of other schools, such as Princeton and Duke. While Harvard’s director has traditionally been a senior lecturer, many colleges with writing programs comparable to Harvard’s have placed a tenured professor at their program’s helm.Bruce Beiderwell, director of the UCLA Writing Programs, said that his lack of a professorship has made it more difficult for him to advocate for his program, which has become increasingly important as colleges begin to make financial cutbacks as a result of the economic crisis.“We have no formalized voice, so I often...
...does [decriminalize] and should take seriously the possibility that anti-user enforcement isn't having much influence on our drug consumption," says Mark Kleiman, author of the forthcoming When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment and director of the drug policy analysis program at UCLA. Kleiman does not consider Portugal a realistic model for the U.S., however, because of differences in size and culture between the two countries...
...provide help for students from out-of-state. So the economic distribution for them is significantly different from those in-state." One fairly reliable measure of the economic diversity of a campus is the percentage of students who receive Pell Grants. Roughly 30% of the undergraduates at UCLA or UC-Berkeley are Pell Grant recipients. At Michigan, by contrast, that number is only around...