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UCLA Students Criticize School's Lack of Diversity
A spoken-word student-video on YouTube dramatizes how few African-Americans are admitted to UCLA. What's it like to be one of the only black students on campus?
By Warren Olney • • 25m ListenA spoken-word student-video with more than a million views on YouTube dramatizes how few African-Americans are admitted to UCLA. We hear what it's like to be one of the only black students on campus. Race-based affirmative action was banned by California voters in 1996. What other strategies can help increase diversity? Are they being implemented at UCLA? Also, a full-grown mountain lion slinks through Griffith Park with the Hollywood sign in the background. We hear what it took to get some remarkable photographs.
On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, when nuclear talks resume tomorrow, the Obama Administration is optimistic about a deal with Iran. But Israel, Saudi Arabia and both parties in Congress, are warning that a bad deal would be worse than no deal at all. We'll hear about the most likely terms for an agreement and why they're causing so much diplomatic and political friction.
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2 storiesBlack and Outnumbered at UCLA
A spoken word video made at UCLA has gone viral. With 12 black students behind him on the steps of a university building, third year student Sy Stokes provides facts and figures and recounts what it's like to be one of so few African Americans on a campus supposedly pledged to diversity. There are 25,000 undergraduates at UCLA.
Read the story18 minPhotographer Captures LA 'Ghost Cats'
The December issue of National Geographic features a spread of stunning photographs under the headline, "Tigers Forever." They are dramatic and beautiful evidence of the mountain lions that live in metropolitan Los Angeles — with one shown in Griffith Park with the Hollywood sign in the background. They're the work of photographer Steve Winter.
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