Saturday, April 11

UC begins implementing LGBT advisory group recommendations

The University of California will allow students to indicate their preferred names in its academic record system and will build gender-neutral bathrooms in new and renovated buildings, implementing two recommendations from the University’s task force on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, officials announced Monday. Read more...




Registration Issue 2014

The start of a year at UCLA brings with it many opportunities – more than 1,000 clubs, 120 majors and hundreds of on- and off- campus activities to choose from. All of them lead to a different result – your own college experience. Read more...



UCLA lecturer’s work on prison program allows inmates exposure to arts

They told him they didn’t want a bureaucrat, so Tom Skelly took the job at Chino prison. At the state institution, sprawled across 2,500 acres of land in San Bernardino County, Skelly’s job as the prison’s new arts facilitator started simply. Read more...

Photo: Tom Skelly, an arts lecturer at UCLA, spray paints a picture frame in his yard. He often works on his art from a studio at home. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Napolitano’s first year as UC president draws mixed criticism, praise

Students wanted Janet Napolitano out of office even before she took the helm as the University of California president. At her first University of California Board of Regents meeting in July last year, six protesters were arrested as they demanded the regents withdraw her appointment, upset that she did not have a background in academia and that she had overseen a record number of deportations as Secretary of Homeland Security. Read more...