Bruin Dine, a program that offers free food at De Neve Residential Restaurant on Thursday nights, launched last week for winter quarter. The student-run program, which aims to reduce food waste and address food insecurity on campus, serves unconsumed food from dining halls to students for free on Thursdays from 9 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Students can now get free food every Thursday until week 10 in the private dining room in De Neve with the Bruin Dine program. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA’s Bruin Reception Room in Ackerman Union will serve as a voter center for the 2020 primary and general elections. The center will be open for 11 days from Feb. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students will be able to vote in the Bruin Reception Room for both the 2020 primary and general elections. The voter center will be open from Feb. 22 to March 3 for the primary election, and will allow for casting ballots, same-day voter registration and mail-in ballot drop off. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)
Buddy Al-Aydi, a second-year English student, threw his backpack to the side of the Bruin Walk stage and ran up to grab a metal baseball bat. Read more...
Photo: Students smashed bathroom scales with baseball bats as part of the Body Image Task Force’s “I Love My Body Week.” The scale-smashing event was co-hosted by Southern Smash, a group that travels to college campuses across California to foster self-worth by inviting students to smash scales. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: Is diet soda bad for our health? Read more...
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A UCLA student organization wants to help businesses run clean and green. Clean Consulting, a student-led environmental consulting group, examines and suggests ways on-campus and off-campus organizations can be more sustainable. Read more...
Photo: Clean Consulting, a student environmental consulting group founded in 2018, received more than 250 applications during its fall 2019 hiring cycle. The group worked with UCLA during its Zero Wast by 2020 initiative. (Dhruv Singhania/Daily Bruin)
John Baldessari loved wordplay, using it both in his art and in his daily life. “He loved to tell terrible jokes – groaners, puns,” said Thomas Lawson, a former colleague of Baldessari at the California Institute of the Arts and dean of its School of Art. Read more...
Photo: John Baldessari, a famous conceptual artist and former professor in the UCLA art department, died Jan. 2 at 88 years old. Students remember his sense of humor and his encouraging style of teaching. (Courtesy of Analia Saban)
Students at a community town hall Wednesday raised concerns about support for underrepresented minorities to a search committee for the next vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion. Read more...
Photo: The search committee for the vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion held a forum Wednesday for students to voice their questions and concerns about the search process. (Daanish Bhatti/Daily Bruin)
