About 25 students who support the climate change awareness movement marched from the Bruin Bear to the bottom of Janss Steps on Friday, demanding action to minimize the effects of global warming. Read more...
Photo: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an environmental activist, addresses a group of students as a part of Know Tomorrow’s national day of action to encourage students to join the fight against climate change. (Courtesy of Danna Creager)
Disha Bhagwat was strolling through Pub Street, home to noisy bars and clubs frequented by wealthy tourists, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, last year when she was caught off guard by lonely children dancing and people with disabilities performing music on the street for money. Read more...
Photo: Disha Bhagwat, a fourth-year economics student, interviewed people in a Cambodia village to research the impact of tourism on the community. (Courtesy of Disha Bhagwat)
Students rented out more than 300 iClickers through an undergraduate student government program within the first hour they were available. Read more...
Photo: Ruhi Patil, USAC Financial Supports commissioner, is in charge of the iClicker loan program, which rented out of about 300 iClickers for the quarter. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
At 20, James Anderson walked out of more than three years in prison with $200 in his pocket. Instead of buying street clothes or food, he used the money to purchase two suits, symbolizing his determination to establish a criminal rights and mentorship organization that would fight to help incarcerated youth and improve prison policy. Read more...
Photo: James Anderson, who got involved with gangs and drugs as a teenager, was accepted to UCLA this spring. His determination to establish a criminal rights and mentorship organization has seen him cross paths with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and President Barack Obama. (Photo Illustration by Daniel Alcazar and Miriam Bribiesca)
The number of reported forcible sexual offenses on campus decreased last year after a sharp increase in 2013, while numbers of other crimes stayed relatively constant, according to a university police report released Thursday. Read more...
UCLA announced Wednesday it would partner with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to offer cancer therapy clinical trials for men and women who have served in the armed forces. Read more...
In 1993, novelist Toni Morrison became the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, showing the world a critically-acclaimed artist could be a force of change. Read more...
Photo: Chancellor Gene Block will award Toni Morrison the UCLA Medal in a ceremony at Royce Hall Monday, which will include a panel discussion with UCLA graduate students and faculty. (Courtesy of Timothy Greenfield Sanders)
