Sunday, March 22

Management school hosts immersion course in Cuba led by Cuban-born professor

Sixty-two years after Gonzalo Freixes fled Cuba with his family, UCLA finally gave him a chance to return. When arriving to host a global immersion course in the country, Freixes, an associate dean and adjunct professor of accounting in the UCLA Anderson School of Management, said he had a nostalgic return to his native country, which he realized had developed little since his departure. Read more...

Photo: Pictured are students participating in the immersion course in Cuba. The course, which was hosted by Anderson School of Management Associate Dean Gonzalo Freixes, aimed to teach students about the opening of private industry in the country. (Courtesy of Lucy Allard)


UCLA Housing announces it will continue off-campus meal plan for winter quarter

UCLA announced that it will be continuing its pilot off-campus meal plan, which is available to residents in some university-owned apartments, for winter quarter. In a Monday email sent to undergraduate students in University Apartments North – which includes the Laurel, Palo Verde and Tipuana buildings – UCLA Housing said the meal plan will offer 77 meals to students across the quarter at a total cost of $1,155, or $15 per meal. Read more...

Photo: Pictured is a UCLA dining hall. UCLA Dining announced Monday an extension to its pilot program for off-campus meal plans. (Daily Bruin file photo)



Students in off-campus apartments left without gas because of gas line repairs

This post was updated Dec. 12 at 9:25 p.m.  Residents in some university-owned apartment buildings, including Palo Verde, Weyburn Terrace and Tipuana, reported outages to cooking, hot water and laundry services as a result of an emergency gas line being repaired Monday. Read more...

Photo: The Palo Verde and Tipuana university apartment buildings are pictured. Residents of the apartments reported significant service outages after a gas shutoff. (Eva Danesh/Daily Bruin)



UCLA commuter students navigate daily challenges, utilize campus resources

On weekday mornings, as Westwood students rouse from sleep, third-year physics student Josh Jose sits in 7 a.m. traffic. Jose, who drives 45 minutes from the Torrance area to campus, is one of many commuter students at UCLA. Read more...

Photo: Cars parked in Lot 7 are pictured. Some students shared some of the challenges of commuting to college. (Purvi Singhania/Daily Bruin)


UCLA faces scrutiny for safety issues at protests for Israel, Palestine

This post was updated Dec. 6 at 8:43 p.m. Organizers of and participants in recent protests on campus related to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war said UCLA’s approach to policing these protests has been imbalanced and insufficient. Read more...

Photo: The office of UCLA Student Affairs is pictured. Student Affairs has faced scrutiny recently after complaints about policing at recent protests and rallies. (Mia Tavares/Daily Bruin senior staff)



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