UCLA has had nearly a century of student activism, and this year is no exception. Here is an overview of demonstrations that happened this year, how their respective movements have progressed and where people think the movements are going. Read more...
Photo: AFSCME Local 3299, the UC service workers’ union, held a three-day strike in May after negotiations with the University of California stalled. (Jenna Nicole Smith/Daily Bruin)
Eduardo Perez clearly remembers Sept. 5, the day President Donald Trump announced his decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. But Perez, a first-year political science student and DACA recipient, also remembers the email UCLA, the school he was going to attend that fall, sent out in response. Read more...
This post was updated June 9 at 2:51 a.m. Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Republican John Cox won the California gubernatorial primary election Tuesday. Newsom led with 33 percent of the vote; Cox won 26 percent. Read more...
Photo: Sen. Dianne Feinstein won the primary election for U.S. Senate, taking 44 percent of the vote. (Sharon Zhen/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA will join California in barring employees from traveling to Oklahoma, which enacted a law that targets LGBTQ couples. The California Attorney General’s office announced Friday that it would ban public employees from work-related travel to Oklahoma after the state passed a law that allows adoption agencies to turn away LGBTQ couples based on religious beliefs. Read more...
Photo: Although UCLA Athletics does not have to abide by the California Attorney General’s ruling, it will not schedule further commitments with states with discriminatory legislation. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The United States congressman representing Los Angeles said at an event Thursday the current presidential administration’s influence on the media is threatening democracy and freedom of the press. Read more...
Photo: Adam Schiff, ranking Democratic member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, spoke at the Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin staff)
Andrew Klavan said he felt proud to be an American when he saw people of diverse cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and political affiliations at an airport in San Francisco. Read more...
Photo: Andrew Klavan, novelist and host of a podcast on The Daily Wire, spoke about conservative ideology at an event on Tuesday.(Courtesy of Andrew Klavan)
A magazine that reports on higher education ranked UCLA the second-best public university in the United States. The Times Higher Education published their World Reputation Rankings for 2018 on Wednesday, which ranked UCLA ninth in the world among 100 universities, an increase from 13th last year. Read more...
Photo: UCLA ranked ninth best university worldwide in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, an increase from 13th last year. (Daily Bruin file photo)
