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...local lab goes in taking advantage of the Harvard name (Does it charge different rates for Ivy League and non-Ivy-League sperm?) I dial up the cryobank's Web page. Sure enough, it contains a small but noticeable boast: "The majority of our donors come from UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT." As of March 1, 1996, the Web site reads, the cost of a sample for fertilization starts at $142, for something called an intracervical insemination...
...recent poll, commissioned by the American Council on Education and conducted by researchers at UCLA, claims that our classmates, the nation's college first-years, are a strange mix of boredom and ambition. While the polls central focus is the students' attitudes towards their schooling, the wording of the questions makes grander conclusions about the spiritual and intellectual state of college students. Reading of the poll in The New York Times, we are likely to get the impression that our classmates are bored not merely with their classes, but with life, and that they are single-mindedly focused on getting...
...community policing style of police work follows the "broken windows" theory of law enforcement, a term coined by UCLA political scientist James Q. Wilson...
...Angeles--everyone is out to get a poster or T-shirt so they can proudly display the fact that they were among the first to experience the Getty. Visitors shuffled through the rooms, hardly looking at the paintings, making their way to the high walkways to point out their UCLA dorms or their office buildings. Visitors seem to understand that the architecture--bold and iconic--was the most important trait of the new museum, followed closely by its status as a new vantage point. The Getty is a place that is art (that happens to contain it, as well...
WASHINGTON: Like, whatever. According to the latest annual UCLA survey of college freshmen, apathy is at an all-time high ? which won't come as a surprise to any freshman engaged enough to be reading this. Just 27 percent of the nation's 1.6 million freshmen believed that keeping up with political affairs is "a very important life goal" ? that's a record low, only half the percentage recorded in the first survey back in 1966. Moreover, this lack of activism seems to be spilling over into their studies: record numbers reported being bored in class and oversleeping...