Two seasoned slates – Bruins United and LET’S ACT! – are running the majority of the 25 candidates in this spring’s undergraduate student government election. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Election Board announced the candidates running Friday night at a candidate orientation event. Read more...
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April 3, 10:05 pm
Spring USAC election to feature 25 candidates
News, Science & Health, UC
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April 3, 4:18 pm
UC student health center doctors to hold second strike
Doctors at the University of California student health centers will go on their second strike in three months starting Thursday, claiming the UC has not provided the financial information that the union needs. Read more...
Photo: University of California doctors in the Union of American Physicians and Dentists went on a one-day strike in January. The union will go on another strike starting Thursday. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
Campus, News
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April 3, 2:06 am
Autism Speaks U at UCLA celebrates World Autism Awareness Day
Blue lights lit up Pauley Pavilion Thursday night as the UCLA chapter of the national charity Autism Speaks U recognized World Autism Awareness Day. The Autism Speaks U student group at UCLA organized the lighting to make students more aware of autism and the current resources available for autistic individuals, said Steven Anderson, president of Autism Speaks U at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA chapter of Autism Speaks U lit up Pauley Pavilion with blue lights Thursday to recognize World Autism Awareness Day. (Mary Kate Turner/Daily Bruin)
Campus, News
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April 3, 2:05 am
Students rally to maintain support for diversity requirement
About 40 students recited chants calling for faculty to pass a diversity requirement proposal and handed out informational fliers at a rally Thursday to draw attention to an ongoing revote on the measure. Read more...
Photo: Students who support the passage of a new diversity requirement proposal rallied at Meyerhoff Park Thursday afternoon. (Conor Cusack/Daily Bruin)
News, Science & Health
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April 3, 1:18 am
UCLA students unable to recognize and reproduce the Apple logo
UCLA psychologists found that out of 85 UCLA students, only one could correctly reproduce the Apple logo when asked to draw it. Less than half of these students could identify the logo when shown it, leading the psychologists to conclude that our brains have led us to not remember specific details. Read more...
Campus, News
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April 3, 1:18 am
Hedrick Summit residents displaced by water damage from flood
Residents of Hedrick Summit were evacuated to Hedrick Hall for about three and a half hours starting at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday because of a flood from a fire sprinkler. Read more...
News
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April 3, 1:17 am
Students express concern over House proposal to freeze Pell Grants
A House federal budget proposal, released last month, would freeze the maximum Pell Grant award for the next 10 years. The Fiscal Year 2016 House budget resolution claims the Pell Grant program faces a deficit in the near future that cannot be solved with temporary fixes such as annual spending increases. Read more...