UCLA faculty have heightened concerns over the integrity of the Academic Senate’s process to potentially issue an unprecedented no-confidence vote in Chancellor Gene Block, following documents released amid the fallout from Friday’s emergency meeting. Read more...
Photo: Royce Hall is pictured. UCLA faculty members have concerns regarding the Academic Senate’s process of issuing a no-confidence vote in Chancellor Gene Block. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated May 14 at 11:41 p.m. Experts on policing and civil rights law condemned law enforcement’s use of force during the police-led sweep of the Palestine solidarity encampment and its subsequent arrest of pro-Palestine protesters. Read more...
Photo: Police are pictured wearing riot gear outside of the Palestine solidarity encampment. Law enforcement swept the encampment in the early morning of May 2. (Jeremy Chen/Photo editor)
This post was updated May 14 at 11:29 p.m. For the Daily Bruin’s full coverage of the UC Divest Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA demonstrations, see here. Read more...
Photo: Volunteer medics are pictured organizing supplies at the foot of Janss Steps on the afternoon of May 1. Dozens of medics, ranging from undergraduates to hospital physicians, staffed the now-dismantled Palestine solidarity encampment during the April 30 attack and the May 2 police sweep. (Anna Dai-Liu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Cultural Affairs Commission announced it was canceling its events for the rest of the academic year. The Undergraduate Students Association Council office, led by Cultural Affairs Commissioner Alicia Verdugo, released a statement on Instagram Monday morning, citing the violence in Palestine, Congo, Haiti and Sudan, as well as “white supremacist attacks and police brutality” participants of the UCLA Palestine solidarity encampment faced, as the reasons for canceling the events. Read more...
Photo: Attendees watch and dance to singer and saxophonist Braxton Cook’s set at the 2022 JazzReggae Festival. The Cultural Affairs Commission canceled its events, including the JazzReggae festival, for the rest of the academic year. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The USA Elections Board temporarily suspended general representative candidate Vikas Sundar’s campaign Tuesday morning. Sundar, a second-year statistics and data science student, is running to be one of three general representatives who will be elected via a multimember, ranked-choice voting system. Read more...
Photo: Kerckhoff Hall, where the Undergraduate Students Association Council offices are hosted, is shown. The USA Elections Board sanctioned a candidate for general representative due to campaign rule violations Tuesday. (Paco Bacalski/Daily Bruin senior staff)
In a recording sent to a UCLA political science students’ GroupMe, a person claiming to be a candidate for the Undergraduate Students Association Council suggested bulldozing the Palestine solidarity encampment and shooting its participants. Read more...
Photo: Kerckhoff Hall, where the Undergraduate Students Association Council offices are hosted, is pictured.(Daily Bruin file photo)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council held its first meeting of May virtually Tuesday. USAC is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Read more...
