The University of California student regent spoke about her experience as a Queer Chicana student at a panel on National Coming Out Day. The event, hosted by the Queer Alliance at UCLA on Tuesday, featured Student Regent Marcela Ramirez. Read more...
Photo: University of California Student Regent Marcela Ramirez shared her experiences advocating for LGBT and gender inclusivity in higher education at a National Coming Out Day talk. (Pinkie Su/Daily Bruin)
Some students have been noticing changes in their Bruin Café chocolate milk and sandwich packaging in the last few months. UCLA Dining officials have been trying to transition to using solely paper sandwich wrappers to be more environmentally friendly. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Dining switched milk vendors to a higher quality local vendor and changed packaging of sandwiches from plastic boxes to recyclable paper wrapper to be more environmentally friendly. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Inventathon participants convened in the California NanoSystems Institute this weekend to propose solutions for medical needs. Teams of students attended the two-day hackathon hosted by the UCLA Business of Science Center to pitch and create concepts and products to solve unmet clinical needs. Read more...
Photo: Inventathon participants pitched their ideas to judges this weekend at the two-day hackathon held at the California NanoSystems Institute. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
Monica Ho knelt to the floor, arms outstretched, nearly touching her nose to the ground in a position called the child’s pose. Her students – a group of homeless individuals – breathed deeply in the sky blue room as she instructed them to stretch and relax the muscles in their backs. Read more...
Photo: Members of UCLA MEDLIFE lead a yoga, mindfulness and meditation class every other Wednesday at Turning Point, a transitional housing facility for the homeless in Santa Monica. (Allison Ong/Daily Bruin)
Cristian De Nova hid his status as an undocumented student from his friends when he was a freshman. He said he was intimidated by the strength of other UCLA students, who were active in their communities and stood for causes they believed in. Read more...
Photo: U-SPARC, or Undocumented Students for Advanced Retention and Community, will provide mentorship services to undocumented UCLA students in winter. (Efren Pinon/Daily Bruin)
University police are investigating an online comment made toward the Alpha Phi sorority Monday. The comment, written in the comments section of the sorority’s recruitment video on YouTube, was a short written excerpt from the video manifesto released by Elliot Rodger, the man who killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in May 2014. Read more...
Helen and Rachel Lee went on a college shopping trip together before they moved into UCLA and noticed something odd with their receipt. “We went over budget, but we couldn’t figure out where we hit the hardest,” Helen Lee said. Read more...
Photo: Second-year students Helen Lee and Rachel Lee began protesting against the sales tax on menstrual products, a campaign that led them to the state capitol last month. (Efren Piñon/Daily Bruin)
