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...learn from fellow students from other cultures and with different life experiences. A number of studies have found that diversity can produce these tangible results. According to Mitchell J. Chang, an associate dean at Loyola Marymount University, and Alexander W. Astin, director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, a diverse campus environment “contributes to the student’s academic development, satisfaction with college, level of cultural awareness, and commitment to promoting racial understanding,” and is also associated with higher student GPAs and better overall student satisfaction...
...Crimson squad certainly doesn’t seemed deterred by its tournament position, being placed in the same bracket as eighth-seeded UCLA and the No. 1 team overall, Duke University—a team Harvard lost to by only one goal earlier in the season...
...history concentrator in Dunster House. His interest in drawing began in the Nebraska public school system, carried on through his freshman year at UCLA during 2,000 student classes, and now thrives as he takes classes in the core. While his art has traditionally focused primarily on ninjas fighting aliens, he will be making weekly exceptions as his editorial cartoon appear every Tuesday...
...nation's lite, most desirable campuses. Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. have their counterparts on the left coast in the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford; and Caltech. These campuses are certainly not inferior to the Ivy League campuses, and one of them is a public institution. D. BLAIR GIBSON UCLA, B.A. '78, PH.D. '90 EL CAMINO COLLEGE Torrance, Calif...
Sexual orientation influences your paycheck too, says Gary Gates, a senior research fellow at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. "Gay men in particular have earnings similar to other men, but partnered gay men have earnings quite substantially below men who partner with women." Gates has a theory about the disparity: "Being gay has impact, particularly on the executive level. You can't go to the golf club with your wife. Your wife can't entertain the spouses...