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Seven lessons from Robin Benway for aspiring writers
Robin Benway has something to say to aspiring writers. The author of the young adult novels "Also Known As," "Audrey, Wait?" and "The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May and June" recently spoke to students in the MFA program at UC Riverside's Palm Desert...
Tags: Authors, Book
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UC Riverside student pleads not guilty in plot to kill ex-boyfriend
A 21-year-old college student at UC Riverside was in custody after pleading not guilty to trying to get her current boyfriend to kill her ex-boyfriend. According to the Press-Enterprise, Barbara Wu was charged in May with soliciting murder, making...
Tags: Santa Monica College, College Baseball, Trials
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Decentralize the UC system? It's a bad idea [Blowback]
In arguing that the individual campuses of the University of California would be better served by having a looser relationship with a drastically downsized UC office of the president, UCLA history professor David Myers relies in part on the late Clark...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Finance, Students, Economy, Business and Finance
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'Old time' video teaches tricky commencement custom
The years of classes are over, the dissertations are approved and the diplomas are ready. Now don’t mess up while placing a colorful “doctoral” hood around your students’ necks during graduation ceremonies. That’s the...
Tags: Education, Michael Jackson
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Letters: Paying it forward on education
Re "Bigger education, better outcomes," Opinion, May 24 Ronald Brownstein well documents this country's worsening crisis in higher education and how it bodes ill for our future. He presents compelling statistics, to be sure. But Jane Close Conoley, UC... -
Ruben Barrales, party guy
When President Obama told students in Mexico that without the support of U.S. Latinos he would not be president, he wasn't talking about the GOP's Ruben Barrales. But Barrales gets the message. He is the son of immigrants, and San Mateo County's first...
Tags: Barack Obama, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Republican Party, DREAM Act, Migration
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Cal State chief visits campus, dances and chats with students
Almost before he had taken his last spin, there was a YouTube video up of Cal State University Chancellor Timothy P. White break dancing in front of hundreds of appreciative students at the Dominguez Hills campus Tuesday. It follows the video of him...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Education, Students
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Boy Scout leaders recommend allowing gay boys into the ranks
Top officials of the Boy Scouts of America have unanimously recommended allowing gay boys into the ranks of one of the nation’s oldest and most traditional youth groups while continuing to exclude homosexual adults as leaders. Scouting’s...
Tags: Barack Obama, Protestant Convention, Religion and Belief, Minority Groups, U.S. Supreme Court
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UC Berkeley student leaders urge UC to divest from some firms
Elected student leaders at UC Berkeley passed a resolution early Thursday that urged the UC system to divest from companies said to profit from anti-Palestinian Israeli policies. The controversial resolution was passed in the student government’...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Human Rights, Students, University of California, Santa Barbara, Elections
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Boston Marathon: Family doesn't know if Torrance man will recover
The Torrance businessman critically injured in the Boston Marathon bombings has undergone multiple surgeries, but his family doesn't know if he will survive, his son-in-law said Wednesday. John Odom was watching his daughter, former UCLA softball player...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports
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Boston Marathon bombing victim attended UC Riverside
The 23-year-old Chinese woman who was a graduate student at Boston University and the third victim killed in the Boston Marathon bombings was also a former UC Riverside Extension student, according to school officials. Jane Close Conoley, the interim...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports, Lu Lingzi, Students
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jerry Brown, Protest, University of California, Berkeley
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