Saturday, March 28

UC experts discuss policy responses to California mass shootings

Experts discussed possible causes and policy responses regarding a string of mass shootings in California in January. A mass shooting in Beverly Crest on Saturday killed three people and injured four. Read more...

Photo: Los Angeles, pictured. Experts discussed possible public policy responses to a recent string of mass shootings in California. (Daily Bruin file photo)



A month after new contract, UAW members’ concerns about bargaining process persist

Rank-and-file members of several United Auto Workers unions expressed dissatisfaction with issues of marginalization, bullying and suppression they said they experienced during internal negotiations to ratify a new contract with the University of California. Read more...

Photo: United Auto Worker union members walk a picket line. Many academic workers expressed dissatisfaction with union’s internal handling of the bargaining process with the University of California. (Myka Fromm/Daily Bruin)



Former UCLA lecturer Matthew Harris deemed mentally unfit for trial after arrest

A former lecturer who was arrested by the FBI last year for allegedly threatening the campus and faculty was declared mentally unfit to stand trial by the United States District Court for the District of Colorado on Friday. Read more...

Photo: Dodd Hall (pictured) houses the Department of Philosophy. Former lecturer Matthew Harris was recently deemed unfit to stand trial by the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. (Daily Bruin file photo)


New proposal seeks holistic investigation of 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak

This post was updated Feb. 5 at 9:29 p.m. Researchers from UCLA, New York University and the California Institute of Technology recently received a federal grant to investigate the Aliso Canyon gas leak that occurred in the fall of 2015. Read more...

Photo: The Fielding School of Public Health is pictured. Researchers from multiple schools, including UCLA, recently were awarded a grant to investigate the 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Newly-elected Thyra Cobbs sworn in as USAC transfer student representative

This post was updated Feb. 13 at 5:45 p.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council appointed Thyra Cobbs as the new transfer student representative during the Jan. Read more...

Photo: Thyra Cobbs (pictured) was recently appointed the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s transfer student representative. She is a fourth-year African American studies transfer student. (Courtesy of Thyra Cobbs)