Student Advocates for Graduate Education - SAGE aggregator http://sagecoalition.org/aggregator Student Advocates for Graduate Education - SAGE - aggregated feeds en University of California - Los Angles: Sneak Preview: AMERICAN HUSTLE (David O. Russell, 2013) http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-12-10/sneak-preview-american-hustle-david-orussell-2013 <p>A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most extraordinary scandals of the 1970s, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds.</p><p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-12-10/sneak-preview-american-hustle-david-orussell-2013">read more</a></p> Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:23:47 -0700 University of California - Los Angles: GradCafe - Come Study and Enjoy Free Snacks and Drinks http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-12-04/gradcafe-come-study-and-enjoy-free-snacks-and-drinks <p>Today is GradCafe! Don't forget to bring all your study materials to K-REC tomorrow to study with GSA. FREE Food, snacks, coffee/tea/hot cocoa, and study materials will be available ALL DAY. There will be adequate outlets for all of your electronic needs and there's a special treat coming during GSA that you won't want to miss! Don't miss the LAST GSA EVENT OF 2013...it's designed especially for surviving your 10th/Finals week!!</p> <p>Date: Tuesday, December 3rd<br /> Time: 12pm-10pm<br /> Location: Kinross Recreation Center aka K-REC<br /> Cost: Nothing! Just bring your BruinCard!</p><p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-12-04/gradcafe-come-study-and-enjoy-free-snacks-and-drinks">read more</a></p> Tue, 03 Dec 2013 01:27:25 -0700 University of California - Los Angles: Sneak Preview: THE PAST (Asghar Farhadi, 2013) http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-12-05/sneak-preview-past-asghar-farhadi-2013 <p>Academy Award winner Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) continues his career-defining exploration of family dynamics, morality and class conflict. After four years of separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran to finalize his divorce with his wife Marie. Almost immediately, Ahmad becomes entangled in a new crisis when he discovers his ex- is about to re-marry and her daughter deeply objects. Marie’s new fiancé is the quiet and handsome Samir, an owner of a dry-cleaners and still married to a woman in a coma.</p><p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-12-05/sneak-preview-past-asghar-farhadi-2013">read more</a></p> Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:15:00 -0700 University of California - Los Angles: Call for Student Applications to Serve on the Chancellor’s OIP-ISR Oversight Committee http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/news/2013-12-06/call-student-applications-to-serve-chancellor%E2%80%99s-oip-isr-oversight-comm <p>To: To Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Students </p> <p>As part of the governance restructuring of UCLA’s Office of Intellectual Property &amp; Industry Sponsored Research, the UCLA Chancellor will be appointing inaugural members to the Chancellor’s OIP-ISR Oversight Committee in the winter of 2013. Committee membership will be comprised of UCLA deans, faculty, students, campus administrators, and community members. Applications are now being accepted for Student member positions on the Chancellor’s OIP-ISR Oversight Committee. Both</p><p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/news/2013-12-06/call-student-applications-to-serve-chancellor%E2%80%99s-oip-isr-oversight-comm">read more</a></p> Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:39:51 -0700 University of California - Los Angles: Weekly Financial Report as of 11/18/13 http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/content/weekly-financial-report-111813 <div class="field field-type-date field-field-date"> <div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">November 18, 2013 - 8:18pm</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-pdf"> <div class="field-label">PDF Attachment:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file clear-block"><div class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf"><<p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/content/weekly-financial-report-111813">read more</a></p> Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:20:12 -0700 University of California - Los Angles: Sneak Preview: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013) http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-26/sneak-preview-inside-llewyn-davis-joel-and-ethan-coen-2013 <p>Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from Academy Award-winners Joel and Ethan Coen, follows a week in the life of a young folk singer at a crossroads, struggling to make it in the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac)—guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter—is beset by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.</p><p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-26/sneak-preview-inside-llewyn-davis-joel-and-ethan-coen-2013">read more</a></p> Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:38:15 -0700 University of California - Los Angles: HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (Woody Allen, 1986) http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-22/hannah-and-her-sisters-woody-allen-1986 <p>A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves, and infidelities among a tightly-knit artistic clan. Hannah (Mia Farrow) regularly meets with her sisters Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey) to discuss the week's events. It's what they don't always tell each other that forms the film's various subplots. Hannah is married to accountant and financial planner Elliot (Michael Caine), who carries a torch for Lee, who in turn lives with pompous Soho artist Frederick (Max von Sydow).</p><p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-22/hannah-and-her-sisters-woody-allen-1986">read more</a></p> Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:15:31 -0700 University of California - Los Angles: Sneak Preview: THE CRASH REEL (Lucy Walker, 2013) http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-21/sneak-preview-crash-reel-lucy-walker-2013 <p>Followed by a Q&amp;A with Producer Julian Cautherley and Writer Pedro Kos!</p> <p>For Tickets: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sneak-preview-the-crash-reel-lucy-walker-2013-tickets-9413129925" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sneak-preview-the-crash-reel-lucy-walker-2013-tickets-9413129925">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sneak-preview-the-crash-reel-lucy-walker-20...</a> </p> <p>"Compulsive and thrilling...required viewing." — The Hollywood Reporter<br /> "By turns pulse-quickening and contemplative, thoroughly winning...a spectacular feat." — Variety</p><p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-21/sneak-preview-crash-reel-lucy-walker-2013">read more</a></p> Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:30:32 -0700 University of California - Los Angles: Free Dance Lessons: Ballroom, Salsa & More http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-18/free-dance-lessons-ballroom-salsa-more <p><strong>Ballroom Dance Club and Social Dance Club Dance Lessons </strong><br /> Mondays 7pm-9pm at UCLA Kerckhoff Grand Salon</p> <p>Nov. 18 Swing Lindy Hop<br /> Nov. 25 Salsa<br /> Dec. 2 Swing/Swing Dance Party with Live Music featuring Swing Inc.<br /> <a href="http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/ballroomdance/index.asp" title="www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/ballroomdance/index.asp">www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/ballroomdance/index.asp</a></p> <p><strong>International Folk Dance Club Culture Nights Dance Lessons</strong><br /> Mondays 9pm at UCLA Kerckhoff Grand Salon</p><p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-18/free-dance-lessons-ballroom-salsa-more">read more</a></p> Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:39:18 -0700 University of California - Los Angles: "Write for Rights" Global Write-a-thon http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-14/write-rights-global-write-thon <p>Please join Amnesty International this Thursday, November 14th at Kerckhoff Coffee House at 6:00pm for our Annual "Write for Rights" global write-a-thon, where human activists all around the world write letters to express concern for some of Amnesty's Individuals at Risk. Through these letters we demand that the human rights of individuals be respected, protected and fulfilled. We will have informational pamphlets as guides, so just come to Kerckhoff Coffee House this Thursday to show your support and make a difference!</p><p><a href="http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/briefing-room/calendar/2013-11-14/write-rights-global-write-thon">read more</a></p> Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:16:43 -0700