Covel Commons Residential Restaurant will close during spring quarter for renovations, causing concern among Muslim students over the closure of the only dining hall with halal options. Read more...
Photo: Covel Commons Residential Restaurant will be closed spring quarter for renovations and is expected to reopen for fall quarter 2020. This has raised concerns for Muslim students since Covel is the only dining hall with halal options. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Khristopher Go faced food insecurity while studying psychology at UCLA. Go met undergraduate history advisor Paul Padilla as a work-study student in the history department. Padilla noticed Go’s struggle and made sure to always refill a candy jar with snacks and treats so Go would not be completely hungry at the end of the day, Go, now the coordinator of UCLA’s history department, said. Read more...
Photo: Paul Padilla, a history department undergraduate advisor, died last month. He is remembered by students and faculty for his deep knowledge of history and the department, his friendliness and his generosity. (Courtesy of UCLA History department)
A man allegedly committed battery against a student at Hedrick Hall on Wednesday, according to a crime alert. University police are searching for a man that allegedly yelled at and punched the student in the head and face as he was studying Wednesday at around 12:45 p.m. Read more...
Photo: University police are attempting to identify a man allegedly involved in a battery against a student at Hedrick Hall. The man allegedly punched the student in the head and face before walking southbound on Gayley Avenue. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Former UCLA obstetrician-gynecologist James Heaps’ treatment of a patient constituted sexual assault and harassment, according to a Title IX report made public Thursday. A patient of Heaps filed the original Title IX complaint in December 2017, accusing Heaps of inappropriately touching her breast during a visit to his UCLA office to remove her intrauterine device, or IUD. Read more...
Photo: Former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps is currently facing two criminal counts of sexual battery and over 80 civil lawsuits from former patients. A finalized Title IX investigative review found Heaps violated university sexual assault policies. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)
Michael Eselun, chaplain for the Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, said the present moment is what really matters at a campus event Tuesday. Eselun, along with Ali Behdad, professor of literature and director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, and Kristy Edmunds, executive and artistic director for UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, examined “What matters?” at the final “10 Questions: Centennial Edition” program of the year Tuesday in Kaufman Hall. Read more...
Photo: Kristy Edmunds (right), the executive and artistic director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, was one of the last lecturers for UCLA’s “10 Question: Centennial Edition” lecture series. (Courtesy of UCLA Arts)
A transit rail station is likely to be built at UCLA in an upcoming project, according to a Los Angeles Metro feasibility report. The report, which was released in early November, indicates plans for either a heavy rail or monorail transit service extending from the Metro Expo Line in the south to the Metrolink Van Nuys Station in the north. Read more...
Photo: All current proposals for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project – a Los Angeles Metro service that will connect the San Fernando Valley with the Westside – include a connection to the planned Westwood station for the Purple Line Extension, according to a feasibility report released in early November. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Dec. 6 at 6:00 p.m. University police are searching for a man involved in a sexual battery of a student on the Hill early Tuesday morning. Read more...
