Saturday, April 11

UCLA Grand Challenges program awarded $100,000 grant

A Los Angeles nonprofit awarded the UCLA Grand Challenges program $100,000 for its environmental improvement initiative on Tuesday. LA2050, an initiative aimed at improving the city’s educational, environmental, health and safety standards, gave 10 Los Angeles-based projects $100,000 each this week for their work to improve the city. Read more...


Bruin Café reopens Thursday with renovations and updated menus

Students will be able to swipe for several new sandwiches when Bruin Café opens Thursday morning. The popular quick service restaurant on the Hill will have updated menus, including sandwiches such as honey mustard chicken, pastrami and eggplant and hummus. Read more...

Photo: Bruin Café will open Thursday with new menus and dishes. (Agnijita Kumar/Daily Bruin senior staff)



Students recognize veterans’ services through Volunteer Day

UCLA students crowded into hallways with chipping taupe paint and a vegetable garden overrun with leaves and branches at a transitional veteran center Monday. In three separate groups, about 100 UCLA students raked and painted hallways on two floors of a building in the Veterans Succeeding in the 21st Century center, as part of the sixth annual UCLA Volunteer Day. Read more...

Photo: Ali Aziz, a first-year physiological sciences student, paints the hallways of a veteran center as part of UCLA Volunteer Day (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Police search for man who sexually battered woman on Sepulveda

University police are searching for a man who sexually battered a woman Tuesday near a UCLA student housing complex on Sepulveda Boulevard. The woman was walking south on Sepulveda Boulevard near the University Village housing complex around noon Tuesday when the man walked past her, according to a UCPD alert. Read more...


UCPD arrests man for allegedly stealing bike near Terasaki building

University police officers arrested a Los Angeles man Monday after he allegedly stole a bike from a rack near the Terasaki Life Sciences Building. Police arrested Eric Rendon Garcia, 19, at about 6:20 p.m. Read more...

Photo: Eric Rendon Garcia, 19, was arrested by UCPD officers Monday for allegedly stealing a bicycle from a bike rack on campus. (UCPD)


Napolitano says UC will reevaluate tuition policy

In a Tuesday teleconference with University of California student newspapers, UC President Janet Napolitano said the University must reexamine its tuition policy, since the state has not met the UC’s financial needs. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Rachael Garner/The Daily Californian)