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Melnitz Hall is pictured. UCLA film and television students filed a petition Tuesday in response to the department’s changes to its undergraduate narrative directing program. (Daily Bruin file photo)

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television to review program change following criticism

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UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television plans to reverse a controversial proposed change to its undergraduate narrative directing program, professors said Wednesday. Administrators from the School of Theater, Film and Television initially announced in a May 7 email that students taking Undergraduate Film Production – a required course for students in the narrative directing concentration – would collectively only be allowed to make a maximum of eight films.



UCLA softball axes Arkansas, eliminating Razorbacks from WCWS in run-rule shutout

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This post was updated May 29 at 9:50 p.m. OKLAHOMA CITY — It is hard to stack runs in a single game.  It is even harder to plate an onslaught of runners in a single frame.


UCLA baseball defeats Virginia Tech in 9th-inning comeback, avoids elimination

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This post was updated May 30 at 6:07 p.m. Sir Isaac Newton’s first law of motion says an object in motion will stay in motion.  Saturday seemed to prove that it would take a force a lot stronger than a tournament-opening loss and two-run deficit in the ninth to stop the Bruins in their tracks.  “We’ve kind of developed an identity,” said junior utility Phoenix Call.


Ocean preservationists dive in to the effects of DDT dumping at Hammer Museum event

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Researchers across academic disciplines should work together to address the negative impacts of human interactions with and educate people about marine ecosystems, ocean preservation activists said at a May 21 event.


Woody Brown depicts diversity in communication through bestselling novel “Upward Bound”


Word from Walters: UCLA softball’s underclassmen are essential to the team


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GSA condemns conversion of Weyburn Terrace to undergraduate housing

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The Graduate Students Association criticized UCLA Housing’s decision to convert Weyburn Terrace into undergraduate housing, alleging a lack of input from graduate students. UCLA Housing is converting Weyburn Terrace into undergraduate housing over the next three years, it announced in a Jan.

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Academic student workers and graduate student researchers represented by the United Auto Workers union recently ended a nearly six-week strike in which they called for better working conditions and equitable wages. The contract stipulates pay increases for all workers – for some, pay increases of up to 80% – as well as anti-harassment policies and increased childcare support. However, the negotiations have struck controversy among some UAW members dissatisfied with the results of the contract. What are your thoughts on this issue? Submit View results without voting »