UCLA students took part in the #ShutDownA14 protest to promote awareness and action on campus. Several students started at the Bruin Bear, then walked to Powell Library, North Campus, South Campus and finally Wilshire Boulevard, to call for mass resistance to “stop business as usual” on April 14 in an effort to speak out against police brutality. Read more...
Photo: (Carmen Luk and Kevin Yang)
Colorful T-shirts with personal stories about sexual violence written on them hung from lines across Dickson Court Tuesday, marking the first day of the annual Clothesline Project. Read more...
Photo: Farheen Jamil, a fourth-year global studies student and assistant director of 7000 in Solidarity, hangs up T-shirts painted by students affected by sexual violence for the Clothesline Project. The public art display started Tuesday in Dickson Court and will span until Thursday. (Tamaryn Kong/Daily Bruin)
University of California, San Francisco announced Tuesday that Gov. Jerry Brown has committed $3 million in state funds to a UC Health system project that aims to advance precision medicine. Read more...
Photo: UC Health, of which Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is a member, is participating in an initiative to advance precision medicine. (Daily Bruin File Photo)
Undergraduate student government officers voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a resolution that calls on administration to establish an on-campus, nondenominational prayer and meditation space. The resolution proposes a permanent prayer and meditation space on campus reserved for students of different faiths or no faith who wish to observe their religious or spiritual practices. Read more...
Photo: Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative 1 Manjot Singh sponsored a resolution calling for a space on campus for nondenominational prayer and meditation. (Eva Sidhu/Daily Bruin)
Several UCLA students are appealing parking tickets after university police increased its distribution of citations for cars left in spaces between the street and sidewalk in Westwood. Read more...
Photo: Students who park their cars on the grassy or brick areas between the sidewalk and street are seeing an increase in tickets. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every week on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Read more...
California Highway Patrol arrested at least three UCLA students in Westwood Tuesday after they blocked a 405 Freeway off-ramp during a protest against police brutality. Protesters dressed in black blocked the northbound 405 off-ramp toward the eastbound Wilshire Boulevard exit for about 20 minutes after 3:40 p.m., preventing dozens of cars from getting off the freeway. Read more...
Photo: Protesters marched though Westwood Tuesday calling for an end to police brutality. (Kailey Rishovd/Daily Bruin)
