Friday, March 20

UC employees rally for $25 minimum wage outside Board of Regents meeting

Dozens of UC employees gathered outside a UC Board of Regents meeting at Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center to call for higher wages. The rally, put on by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 – which represents more than 30,000 UC service workers and skilled craft workers – called for minimum wages of $25 per hour, said Frank Valdez, the strategic communications director for AFSCME Local 3299. Read more...

Photo: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 union members protest outside Wednesday’s UC Board of Regents meeting. They called for a $25 an hour minimum wage for University employees. (Shengfeng Chien/Daily Bruin staff)



USAC proposal will use surplus to partly cover commuter students’ parking permits

The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved a proposal to use surplus funding to help commuter students pay for on-campus parking permits. The commuter aid proposal suggested by General Representative 2 Naomi Hammonds and passed on March 14 would cover $50 of commuter students’ parking passes, which are currently priced at $292.93 per quarter, using surplus funds. Read more...

Photo: A road full of cars is pictured. The Undergraduate Students Association Council approved funding for a proposal that would give commuter students $50 to pay for parking permits on campus. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Administrators prohibit depictions of UCLA from student film about activism

UCLA administrators prevented UCLA’s Film and Photography Society from making a historical film about UCLA student activism with any information identifying the UCLA brand. The film, prospectively titled “Good Morning Murphy Hall,” sought to depict the anti-war protest efforts at UCLA following the Persian Gulf War and United States troop mobilization in the Middle East. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Film and Photography Society was denied approval to portray the university in a short film about a 1991 student protest (pictured). (Daily Bruin file photo)


UCLA updates COVID guidelines, scales back test collection across campus

UCLA will update its COVID-19 protocols and discontinue multiple testing distribution and vending machine locations, the university announced in a campuswide email Wednesday. The changes align with the new Los Angeles County Department of Health COVID-19 guidelines released in March. Read more...

Photo: (Michael Vigman/Daily Bruin) A COVID-19 test vending machine is pictured. UCLA will discontinue multiple vending machine and collection box locations on April 14.


USAC passes Armenian solidarity resolution urging awareness, support from UCLA

The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously passed a resolution March 14 in solidarity with the Armenians of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, which implored UCLA to denounce anti-Armenian sentiment and support Armenian students. Read more...

Photo: People gather around candles in front of Powell Library. The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution in support of the Armenians of Artsakh. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)


The university librarian since 2013, Virginia Steel will retire at the end of 2023

The UCLA Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian Virginia Steel will retire at the end of 2023, the university announced Thursday.  Steel, who has been the university librarian since 2013, leads nearly all the campus libraries. Read more...

Photo: Powell Library is pictured. The UCLA librarian Virginia Steel will retire at the end of 2023, with the search for her successor set to begin in the spring. (Daily Bruin file photo)



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