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...Akpan stayed on as one of 21 players training for the U.S. Under-20 National Team, from which one more player will be cut before the Jan. 17-21 CONCACAF qualifying tournament in Panama City, Panama. Akpan is training with players such as MLS phenom Freddie Adu and UCLA standout Sal Zizzo under veteran U-20 coach Thomas Rongen. Zizzo scored twice in UCLA’s win against the Crimson in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The MLS combine will take place through today and will give Altchek a chance to showcase his skills before...
...Last month, Harvard lost the Civil Rights Project to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), when the center’s co-founder and director, Gary Orfield, decided to relocate to UCLA, where he will now co-direct the center with his wife, Patricia Gandara, also an education scholar...
...Orfield and Gandara wed last year, and Orfield writes in an e-mail that once they were married and wanted to work together, they were “immediately and seriously contacted by many major universities” and chose UCLA because it extended the best offer. Both received tenure at UCLA...
...aforementioned article, Carr quotes Robert Rosen, Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television: “Violence can be a corollary of gravity and seriousness… There is increasingly a choreography of violence, a way of aestheticizing it, that makes it more acceptable and worthy of recognition.” The problem with films like “Apocalypto” (and its forerunner, “The Passion of the Christ”) is that although they try to be serious, they invariably drown in the ‘aesthetics of violence?...
Julio D. Montejo ’10 anxiously eyed his computer screen, preparing for the worst. Having applied to UCLA last year, Montejo worried that he might receive an e-mail notifying him that he was one of the 800,000 students whose personal information might have been accessed by a hacker who penetrated UCLA’s applicant database over the past year. After a tense interlude, Montejo relaxed. “Apparently, I’m safe,” he said. He was one of the lucky ones. Bearing the subject line, “UCLA Warns...