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If it’s one time you really need to stay focused during the quarter, it’s during finals week. Yet, I’ve noticed the difficulty many of us have studying for our finals and completing final assignments during this one week. Here are some tips I’ve picked up to help us prepare for our exams.
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When we walk into the lecture hall, we can easily identify the seats meant for students and the single podium that belongs to the teacher. Many of the lecture halls at universities are meant to accommodate hundreds of students at a time, the seats arranged theater-style…
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The infamous “Asians in the Library” video shows that not all students have been adequately prepared on how to deal with diversity. This recent incident demonstrates the need for UCLA to finally pass a “diversity” requirement.
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Al-Talib interviews Alia Ghoneum, an Egyptian-American senior at UCLA studying Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology. She shares her thoughts on the current situation in Egypt. A-T: Describe the social, political situation that led to the protests. why are people out there? Ghoneum: Egyptians are in the streets because they feel that their basic rights as humans have been violated. That they have been living under oppression, under a tyranny led by Mubarak. This revolution came from the youth, it was led by [...]
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It seems that while her parents are in the middle of a divorce, Miley Cyrus is feeling a little homesick, and instead of singing her favorite song…she decided to smoke out of a bong. I don’t have to think too far back to recall the Hannah Montana messenger bags and various other accessories middle school and elementary school girls were sporting in support of their new favorite Disney character. Many people didn’t see the nude photo scandal coming, nor did [...]
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On Friday October 22, as Powell Library’s bell counted twelve, students from various backgrounds gathered on the grassy lawn of Meyerhoff Park to protest the freeze on the Islamic Studies program at UCLA. In the past couple of weeks, the student-initiated campaign to re-open the Islamic Studies program had been gathering signatures, rain and shine, around campus and beyond. On Friday, the students gathered once again to raise awareness on campus. During the rally alone, they were able to gather [...]
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On August 7-11, eight prominent Muslim American imams and community leaders partook in a historic trip to two Holocaust camps, Dachau and Auschwitz. New Jersey Rabbi Jack Bemporad said the purpose of this trip was meant “to combat the rise in Holocaust denial that has popped up in various Muslim and non-Muslim circles around the world — and online — in recent years.” After their emotional and profound experience, these imams released the following statement: Statement of Muslim American Imams [...]
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Amelia’s story | Samina’s story | Hana’s story | Sumaya’s story | Alia’s story When I was a child, my family and I would visit Karachi, Pakistan every other year during November or December and spend a month there (I guess it wasn’t such a big deal if an elementary school kid started winter vacation a few weeks early). Back in those days, Ramadan fell during winter, so we would spend majority of Ramadan in Pakistan and celebrate Eid there [...]
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UC Irvine’s Senior Executive Director of Student Housing recently gave a recommendation to suspend the UCI’s Muslim Student Union group for one year. The allegations arose as a result to a UCI-hosted event at which Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was disrupted several times by students, some of whom were members of UCI’s MSU. The MSU, who were surprised by this recommendation, filed an appeal and released a statement on their website. The Jewish Federation Orange County was quick to publicize [...]
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