Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. That’s why Chip Herndon decided to surprise Bruinwalk with mimes, who handed out pink balloons and drew attention and amusement from students walking to class. Read more...
Photo: Mimes stand on Bruinwalk. Chip Herndon hired the mimes to promote his new community building app, Chatterbox. (Courtesy of Chip Herndon)
Editor’s note: This article contains details of war and violence that may be disturbing to some readers. The Armenian Students’ Association at UCLA joined several other Armenian student groups across the country in signing an open letter to condemn the recent conflict at the Armenian border. Read more...
Photo: Members of the executive board of the Armenian Students’ Association at UCLA are pictured (Left to right: Mary Keushkerian, external vice president; Mher Arutyunyan, political affairs chair; Angela Minasyan, president). The Association signed an open letter criticizing the conflict at the Armenian border. (Joseph Jimenez/Assistant Photo editor)
UCLA scholars and international lawyers discussed the Russia-Ukraine war and reports of war crimes from Russian armed forces at a hybrid webinar Wednesday. A United Nations report from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine found evidence of Russian armed forces committing human rights and international humanitarian law violations as well as war crimes during the initial months of the 2022 Ukrainian invasion. Read more...
Photo: UCLA community members and lawyers gathered for a panel (pictured) co-hosted by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. (Courtesy of Shaanth Kodialam)
This post was updated Jan. 28 at 4:12 p.m. A UCLA School of Law research project aims to analyze restrictions on critical race theory, which has sparked controversy in local school districts and K-12 classrooms across the country. Read more...
The American Indian Student Association decorated the Bruin Bear and hosted a jewelry sale Monday in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day. The student organization placed a Pendleton blanket and signs on top of and around the Bruin Bear recognizing that UCLA sits on Indigenous land. Read more...
Photo: Members of the American Indian Student Association hold signs in front of the Bruin Bear statue in Bruin Plaza in recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. (Courtesy of Gabrielle Norte)
UCLA has been using a service to monitor social media posts since 2018 without significant public notice. The university was one of at least 37 colleges and universities identified in a recent investigation by the Dallas Morning News into the use of Social Sentinel, a service schools can use to monitor students’ public social media accounts for potential threats to campus safety. Read more...
Photo: A phone sits on a chair. A recent investigation by the Dallas Morning News uncovered that UCLA has contracted with Detect, formerly known as Social Sentinel, a service that allows universities to monitor social media content. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
A proposed UC A-G ethnic studies requirement has gone through multiple iterations of revisions and feedback and, after much controversy, has hit a roadblock of implementation concerns after almost two years of deliberations. Read more...
Photo: (Maleeha Zaman/Daily Bruin)
