Friday, April 10


Graduate students voice opposition to union’s divestment resolution

Some graduate student workers at the University of California are petitioning against a divestment resolution proposed by union leaders. On Oct. 18, the joint council of United Auto Workers Local 2865, which represents graduate student workers at the UC, agreed to submit a resolution calling for the UC and UAW International to divest from several companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Read more...





UCLA Parents’ Weekend 2014 a relative success

His kids complained about getting two roommates, but he had 11. Thirty years ago, Zelalem Aychiluhim was a first-year mechanical engineering student in Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. Read more...

Photo: UCLA students talk with their parents after attending a presentation in Royce Hall as part of Parents’ Weekend. (Dang-Co Vu/Daily Bruin)


SJP’s Palestine Awareness Week seeks to educate students

Students for Justice in Palestine hopes to inform students about Palestinian politics and culture this week through film screenings, lectures and the construction of what it calls the “Mock Apartheid Wall” in Bruin Plaza. Read more...

Photo: A member of in Student for Justice in Palestine informs students about Palestine politics and culture. (Daily Bruin file photo)