Saturday, August 1

Blum elected regents’ chair

After serving two and a half years as the chairman of the UC Board of Regents, Gerald Parsky will be replaced by Richard Blum this January during the next regents meeting, which will be held at UC San Francisco. Read more...


Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 2

Last Tuesday night, after refusing to show his BruinCard to university police officers, UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was viciously stunned with a Taser five times. We barely had to wait until morning for the Internet to become abuzz with premature accusations and unsubstantiated speculation. Read more...


Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 1

Mostafa Tabatabainejad is totally guilty. Some may say it’s premature to make conclusions about the incident last Tuesday, in which Tabatabainejad was stunned with a Taser five times in Powell Library after refusing to follow the orders of university police officers. Read more...



Letters to the Editor: Responses to the Taser incident

Letters from the UC community UCPD needs to better serve its community While I do agree with David Lazar (“Beware of easy knee-jerk reactions,” Nov. 17) that Mostafa Tabatabainejad was uncooperative and even hostile, an unarmed civilian refusing to leave a library hardly justifies use of force. Read more...


Objecting to use of police force

Hundreds of UCLA students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in Meyerhoff Park Friday afternoon to protest the multiple uses of a Taser on a UCLA student by university police. Read more...


Bruins mourn former teammate

Tempe, ARIZ. “”mdash; Redshirt freshman linebacker Reggie Carter straggled behind his teammates following UCLA’s 24-12 win over Arizona State on Saturday night. As the rest of his team disappeared into Sun Devil Stadium, Carter stood at midfield and paused for a few moments. Read more...