A tribal elder of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians burned sage in the air as the chair of the Los Angeles City and County Indian Commission gave a blessing to all those present at an Indigenous Peoples Day celebration Monday. Read more...
Photo: The celebration featured native performers and speeches by LA city councilmembers and representatives of the LA City and County Indian Commission. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
UCLA is requiring faculty, student workers and staff to enroll in a security enhancement for their login to UCLA internet applications by Oct. 31. All campus faculty, staff and student workers will be required to use multifactor authentication when signing into UCLA applications, said Andrew Wissmiller, associate vice chancellor of information technology services, in a staffwide email last week. Read more...
Photo: Employees who do not enroll in multi-factor authentication by October 31 will not be able to access UCLA websites and applications. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA now has several mobile applications to better reach students and faculty in the event of an emergency. Michael Beck, administrative vice chancellor, said in an email statement Monday students and faculty can download the Bruins Safe mobile app so they can better prepare themselves for emergency situations. Read more...
Photo: (Juliette Le Saint/Illustrations director)
The UCLA Graduate Student Association announced last week it will remain part of the University of California Student Association even though graduate student associations at other campuses voted to leave UCSA last month. Read more...
Photo: Last month, the UC Graduate-Professional Coalition voted to withdraw from UCSA. UCLA’s Graduate Student Association announced it will remain. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA’s undergraduate student government voted last week to reduce the amount student political groups can spend on election campaigns in order to make campaigning more fair. Read more...
Photo: The undergraduate student government amended the Election Code bylaw to make campaigning more fair for independent candidates. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Edwin Cifuentes, a contracted valet worker at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said many valet workers who are being transferred away from UCLA are worried their new jobs will not offer them the same wages or benefits UCLA provided. Read more...
Photo: Valet contract workers for ABM have protested UCLA’s in-sourcing alongside AFSCME at places including the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in July and at the inaugural UC public law conference in September. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
Photo: Members of Refuse Fascism Los Angeles burned a “Make America Great Again” hat, President Donald Trump’s campaign hat, in Bruin Plaza on Thursday at 11 a.m. and called for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to be driven out of office. Members also called for UCLA students to join a national protest against Trump’s administration Nov. 4. “Since when is it normal for two white supremacists to be in the White House?” said UCLA alumna Luna Gonzalez. “That’s what this hat represents.” (Chelsea Zhang/Daily Bruin)
