Some UCLA students felt that the process of donating to charity needed to be quicker, easier and more transparent. As a solution to this, they made an app. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students created a startup for people to donate directly to charities using an iOS app. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated May 27 at 4:15 p.m. UCLA announced that students may take more than one class pass/no pass for the spring quarter in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Students weigh in on the implications of certain departments in the College of Letters and Science not applying a pass/no pass grading policy to courses fulfilling major requirements. (Daily Bruin file photo)
When Jason Vu, a third-year global studies and Asian American studies student, went to Thai Town on a class trip last quarter, a lady saw him and immediately covered her face with a scarf and walked away to avoid him. Read more...
Photo: Over the past months, racism against the Asian American community has grown because of COVID-19 and its country of origin. These issues stem from microaggressions and racialization of the coronvirus, UCLA professors and students said. (Liz Ketcham/Photo Editor)
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kat Sharp has been living more than 400 miles away from her partner, Blue Flood. The two have been dating for four months. Read more...
Photo: (Shari Wei/Daily Bruin)
UCLA students cooked spaghetti alongside a star of the Emmy Award-winning series “Queer Eye” through Zoom on Saturday. UCLA’s Campus Events Commission invited Antoni Porowski, known for his role in the Netflix series “Queer Eye,” to lead an online cookalong of his easy spaghetti recipe open to UCLA students. Read more...
Photo: Antoni Porowski, a star of the Emmy Award-winning series “Queer Eye”, cooked his take on spaghetti with UCLA students through Zoom on Saturday. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin)
Amid stay-at-home orders and a pandemic, student use of UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services has more than halved. The number of students using CAPS services for the first time in at least six months has dropped 65% to 70% between finals week of winter quarter and the start of week four, said Nicole Green, executive director of CAPS. Read more...
Photo: (Muling Shi/Daily Bruin)
The transition to online classes has been a mixed bag for Will Higbie, a third-year aerospace engineering student. Higbie has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulty regulating attention. Read more...
Photo: Students with disabilities face unique challenges adjusting to online education. In a few ways, however, the change has made things easier.(Daily Bruin file photo)
