Friday, April 3

UCPD to restrict and regulate on-campus hoverboard usage

University police will more strictly enforce hoverboard restrictions on campus walkways and in buildings after student pedestrians reported safety concerns last week. UCPD spokesperson Nancy Greenstein said UCPD currently classifies hoverboards as skateboards, which students aren’t allowed to ride on sidewalks, bike paths or roadways to minimize pedestrian collisions. Read more...

Photo: UCPD is trying to discourage students from using hoverboards on walkways and handicap ramps because pedestrians have reported several close calls with hoverboard users. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Students work with NASA to launch ELFIN satellite into space

Student researchers carried wrench sets, solar panels and other satellite parts as they boarded planes to Virginia this summer and early fall, in preparation for launch simulation tests on their satellite. Read more...

Photo: Vassilis Angelopoulos, the principal investigator of the ELFIN satellite and a professor of earth and space sciences, presents an executive summary during an ELFIN meeting. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Residents rally for Palestine in wake of airstrikes

Westwood community members and students chanted while marching to the Israeli Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard Sunday to protest what they claimed was the Israeli occupation of areas such as West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Read more...

Photo: Westwood community members and students chanted while marching Sunday to the Israeli Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard. (Nis Hamid/Daily Bruin)


Weekend familiarizes parents with UCLA campus, student life

Sherry Haley said she was proud to see her daughter involved in several campus activities when she visited the UCLA campus for Parents’ Weekend on Friday. Read more...

Photo: Mairead Ahlbach (middle), a first-year political science student, joins her parents for UCLA Parents’ Weekend, which took place from Friday to Sunday. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)


UCLA Student Affairs makes plan for new transfer or veteran center

UCLA Student Media plans to rent out a section of the Daily Bruin office to the Student Affairs department which hopes to use the space for either a transfer or veteran student center, as discussed in an Associated Students UCLA meeting Friday. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Student Media will rent out part of its office to the Student Affairs department so it can be used as either a transfer or veteran student space. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)