Saturday, December 20


UCLA Dining uses food waste audits to aid in sustainability mission, awareness

On a November day in Feast at Rieber, students bearing nearly empty plates to the dish drop-off to be washed instead waited their turn to have their leftover food weighed. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Sustainability Committee, founded in 2004 to increase environmental sustainability on campus, has been auditing the food waste created by residential dining halls for the current and past academic years. Students turning in their dishes waited to have their leftover food weighed and recorded by volunteers during audits Nov. 18 and Nov. 20 at the De Neve and Feast at Reiber dining halls. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Lettuce recalled from dining halls after E. coli outbreak

No romaine remains in UCLA Dining Services after another E. coli outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that they are recalling romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, due to potential contamination. Read more...

Photo: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Food and Housing Association recalled romaine lettuce Tuesday. It has received 67 reports of E. coli infection nationwide. (Daily Bruin file photo)



Civil rights activist, state senator discuss nonviolent action at inaugural lecture

When Rev. James Lawson Jr. was four years old, he kicked a playmate who called him a racial epithet. When Lawson was in fourth grade, he smacked a child who called him the N-word. Read more...

Photo: State Sen. María Elena Durazo spoke at the first Lawson Lecture on Monday. The lecture series is named after Rev. James Lawson Jr., a nonviolent civil rights activist who won the UCLA Medal last year. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin)


UCLA plans to revise smoking policy to prohibit use of marijuana

The UCLA Office of Environment, Health & Safety revised a policy on smoking and tobacco use this year to prohibit marijuana usage. EH&S held a Q&A session about the policy change Monday, following a 30-day public comment period that ended Sept. Read more...

Photo: UCLA officials held a Q&A session Monday where students could provide input on the revised UCLA Policy 810 which identifies regulations for substances related to smoking. (Xiomara Novo/Daily Bruin)


Chicana/o studies department votes on adding Central American Studies to name

This post was updated Nov. 25 at 2:56 p.m. The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies voted Nov. 15 to expand its name to include Central American studies. Read more...

Photo: The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies is housed within Bunche Hall. Department faculty took voted between Nov. 15 and Nov. 22 on whether to include Central American Studies in the department’s title. (Daily Bruin file photo)



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