Monday, February 2

Multiple pro-Palestine groups protest suspension of SJP, Graduate SJP on campus

This post was updated Feb. 19 at 10:34 p.m. One person was detained after multiple pro-Palestine groups protested at UCLA on Tuesday.   Around 150 people gathered in Dickson Plaza around 2 p.m. Read more...

Photo: Pro-Palestine protesters march past the Mathematical Sciences building. Around 150 people gathered Tuesday to call on the UC to divest from companies associated with the Israeli military and for UCLA to reinstate its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)



Saudi student named as UCLA’s 1st international, 13th-ever Rhodes Scholar

When the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee congratulated a “Mohammed” as the first of two winners from Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Alharthi’s first reaction was, “Who is that Mohammed? Read more...

Photo: Pictured is Mohammed Alharthi, who was named UCLA’s 13th-ever and first international student Rhodes Scholar. (Courtesy of Misk Foundation)


‘It brings everyone together’: Matsuri celebrates Japanese culture with music, art

This post was updated Jan. 31 at 12:15 a.m. Crisscrossed with red-and-white lanterns, Kerckhoff Patio bustled with students taking in the atmosphere of the Matsuri festival Jan. Read more...

Photo: Performers sing and dance onstage at the Jan. 23 Matsuri festival held on Kerckhoff Patio. The event was held in collaboration by the Japanese Student Association and the Undergraduate Students Association Council Campus Events Commission, and it featured music, a fashion show and vendors. (Max Zhang/Daily Bruin)


Palettes for Peace art exhibition raises money for Palestinians affected by war

This post was updated Jan. 29 at 2:34 p.m. When Dean Bruton told his aunt he was organizing an art auction for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, she offered to give him every Palestine-related heirloom in her closet. Read more...

Photo: Attendees view artwork at the “Palettes for Peace” event Saturday, hosted by the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the Fowler Museum to raise money for the PCRF and the American University of Beirut’s humanitarian aid in the Middle East. (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin) Photo credit: (Maggie Konecky/Daily Bruin)


Pro-Palestine protesters march to bring attention to Kamal Adwan Hospital attack

A pro-Palestine protest marched through Westwood on Saturday afternoon, ending at UCLA Medical Plaza and violating UCLA’s Time, Place and Manner rules.  The protest, hosted by the Los Angeles, Orange County and Inland Empire chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement – among 20 other local and national organizations – began outside the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard at 3 p.m. Read more...

Photo: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is pictured. A pro-Palestine protest marched through Westwood to the UCLA Medical Center on Saturday to bring attention to the Israeli military’s storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital. (Daily Bruin file photo)


International students reflect on November’s election results, political divide

This post was updated Nov. 24 at 10:28 p.m. November’s election will impact many of Annabelle Shen’s friends, even though she cannot vote. “Some of my friends, they want to immigrate here, so maybe they will follow the policies and the elections,” said Shen, a fourth-year geography student from China. Read more...

Photo: Students observe election results at a UCLA watch party Nov. 5. (Jessica Allen/Daily Bruin)



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