This post was updated Oct. 21 at 4:35 p.m. UCLA students who experience sexual assault must travel more than four miles off campus to access a rape kit. Read more...
Photo: The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is pictured. UCLA students living on campus must travel about four miles to undergo a sexual assault forensic exam, colloquially known as a rape kit, as the medical center doesn’t offer SAFE exams. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The Graduate Students Association approved a revised budget with a projected $95,511 deficit that arose because of a spreadsheet formula error and discussed the Underground Scholars Initiative’s request to rejoin the GSA’s Student Interest Board at its Oct. Read more...
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This post was updated Oct. 24 at 4:28 p.m. Amid the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul childhood immunization policy, UCLA experts cautioned that declining vaccination rates could increase the risk of disease outbreaks on campus. Read more...
Photo: Despite the order, the UC recommends that campuses use a separate vaccine policy determined by the California Department of Public Health, according to its policy on vaccination programs. (Selin Filiz/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Oct. 20 at 10:50 p.m. More than a year after the city of Los Angeles placed restrictions on where people can sleep or camp in public spaces across Westwood, controversy over the limitations’ effectiveness in addressing homeless encampments remains. Read more...
Photo: Westwood Village is pictured. Researchers and community members raised concerns that anticamping zones in Westwood do not effectively address homelessness. (Crystal Tompkins/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Oct. 20 at 10:55 p.m. Students celebrated Filipino and Latino culture at an art gallery in Kerckhoff Hall on Oct. 14. The Filipinx/Latinx Art Gallery was hosted in partnership between three Cultural Affairs Commission programs – The Word on Wednesday, WorldFest and Art Series – and Empowering Latines Against Struggle, a student-run cultural organization. Read more...
Photo: Eliseo Art Silva’s two paintings, “Kayumanggi Ina ng Kalifornia-Brown Madonna of California” (left) and “Sixto Lopez Arriving in Manila Village in 1903” (right), are pictured. Students celebrated Filipino and Latino cultures through visual art, poetry, music and a documentary screening in Kerckhoff Hall on Oct. 14. (Courtesy of Sashi Atkinson Osorio)
Interim Chief Financial Officer Reem Hanna-Harwell said in a March campuswide email that UCLA’s budget deficit was projected to be $220 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year. Read more...
Photo: Murphy Hall is pictured. UCLA has published few details about the specific measures it took to shrink its deficit to $58 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
This post was updated Oct. 18 at 11:13 p.m. 26 Pho Cafe, a Vietnamese restaurant, opened in Westwood on Oct. 4. Located on Glendon Avenue, 26 Pho Cafe offers Vietnamese-inspired dishes including pho, bánh mì and vermicelli noodles, as well as drinks such as Vietnamese coffee with ube and black sesame cream and Thai milk tea. Read more...
Photo: 26 Pho Cafe’s Westwood storefront is pictured. The Vietnamese-inspired restaurant will hold soft opening events during October before its grand opening planned for November. (Joice Ngo/Assistant Photo editor)
