This post was updated Aug. 9 at 9:51 a.m. In 2019, Megan Lynch hurt her hand parking her bike because the bike rack was not accessible, further affecting her pre-existing disability that causes pain in her hands and arms. Read more...
Photo: UC Access Now, which launched on the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, pushes for the University of California to be more accessible for disabled students. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
More than 20 student organizations have endorsed a student government resolution calling on UCLA to rename a campus landmark after a Native American tribe that originally inhabited Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: An Undergraduate Students Association Council resolution calling on UCLA to rename Janss Steps to Tongva Steps to honor the Indigenous Gabrielino-Tongva people who originally inhabited Los Angeles was unanimously passed July 28. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Aug. 6 at 7:59 p.m. to include the NWWNC’s vote in support of renaming Campbell Hall. UCLA community members are calling on the UCLA administration to rename Campbell Hall to honor two Black activists who were killed inside the hall in the 1960s. Read more...
Photo: A petition to rename UCLA’s Campbell Hall created by fourth-year student Tanner Hall has already garnered over 4,500 signatures as of Aug. 3. (Screen capture by Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
UCLA is considering terminating two scholarships offered by a Confederacy heritage group. The United Daughters of the Confederacy’s California Division currently offers two scholarships to students at the University of California who are descendants of either a Confederacy veteran or a Confederacy veteran’s sibling: the Lulie C. Read more...
Photo: UCLA is in discussion with the University of California to end two scholarships offered by a Confederate heritage group. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Textbook affordability advocates worry that the transition to online learning will limit access to course materials for low-income students. Many academic institutions have had to transition to at least partial remote instruction because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Higher education’s transition toward remote instructions could undermine accessibility to course materials and textbook affordability, advocates said.
This post was updated Aug. 7 at 4:40 p.m. A postdoctoral fellow left UCLA following multiple accusations of sexual harassment on Twitter. Starting in early June, several Twitter users accused Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, of sexual harassment, stating that he sent private messages harassing them, invited underage people for drinks and sent minors unsolicited inappropriate photos. Read more...
Photo: Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a postdoctoral fellow at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, left UCLA following multiple accusations of sexual harassment on Twitter. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated to include a clarified maximum potential sentence Aug. 3 at 8:02 p.m. Five former patients filed 17 additional charges of felony sexual misconduct against former UCLA doctor James Heaps at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday morning. Prior to the new charges, Heaps faced criminal charges from two former patients for two counts of sexual battery and one count of sexual exploitation by a physician. Heaps was a UCLA Health obstetrician-gynecologist from February 2014 to June 2018 and previously worked part-time at the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center. Read more...
Photo: After 17 additional felony sex crime charges were filed Monday morning, UCLA Health doctor James Heaps is now accused of 20 felony counts of sexual misconduct. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
