Friday, August 14

In the news:

Kitchen Committee provides free meals for UAW strike, continues operations

This post was updated May 31 at 5:20 p.m. Rafik Wahbi’s favorite memory at UCLA is a simple one: Eating warm-in-your-belly chili on a crisp day, playing his Darbuka outside Bunche Hall and talking with other graduate students about the nerdy things graduate students talk about. Read more...

Photo: People pick up food from a table set up near Bunche Hall during the United Auto Workers strike. The Kitchen Committee, which was set up during the UAW union strike but remains open now, aims to create a close community among food-insecure graduate students. (Courtesy of Kitchen Committee)



Westwood Village Improvement Association obtains permit for Broxton Plaza Project

The Westwood Village Improvement Association received permits from the city of Los Angeles to implement the Broxton Plaza Project, a plan to transform part of Broxton Avenue into a pedestrian-only walkway by summer. Read more...

Photo: Broxton Plaza is pictured. The Westwood Village Improvement Association will transform the area into a pedestrian-only walkway by July. (Ethan Manafi/Daily Bruin staff)


UCLA’s Bruin Scholars work to provide health care to underserved communities

The David Geffen School of Medicine’s inaugural class of Bruin Scholars has started working on projects to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in health care. Dr. Read more...

Photo: Members of the David Geffen School of Medicine’s inaugural class of Bruin Scholars are pictured. The Bruin Scholars program recruits current medical residents and fellows at UCLA and provides them with funding and mentorship, allowing them to develop projects that address equity, diversity and inclusion in healthcare. (Courtesy of Reed Hutchinson)


UCLA-sponsored Grieving Sun Mural captures community expressions of grief

A UCLA-sponsored artist unveiled the Grieving Sun Mural, a community artwork project aimed at shedding light on the power of collective grief, on Wednesday. The mural, which was created by UCLA arts faculty and members of the wider Los Angeles community, was unveiled outside Perloff Hall alongside a soundscape of music, bird calls and recordings of people telling their stories of grief playing from nearby temporarily installed speakers. Read more...

Photo: Marlené Nancy Lopez, the activist-in-residence for cityLAB, unveiled the mural Wednesday. The mural will be at Perloff Hall until Friday. (Halinda Yu/Daily Bruin)


Power outage forces premature closure of Epicuria at Covel

A power outage Thursday forced Epicuria at Covel, one of UCLA’s residential restaurants, to close early. The dining hall, which offers Mediterranean food to students on the Hill, closed early Thursday evening, over an hour before its normal closing time of 9 p.m. Read more...

Photo: The interior of the residential restaurant Epicuria at Covel is pictured. The dining hall closed early Thursday evening following a power outage that also caused flickering lights in other dining halls and university housing. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UC Board of Regents votes to explore employment for students without legal status

The UC Board of Regents unanimously approved a working group Thursday that will explore how to allow all students to work regardless of immigration status.  The regents, who met at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, first discussed the Regents Policy on Equitable Student Employment Opportunities during a closed board session, followed by voting during the open session. Read more...

Photo: Community members hold a sign in support of the Opportunity for All campaign at a rally. The UC Board of Regents supported the campaign’s demands for access to employment regardless of immigration status, approving a task force that will look into its implementation. (Julia Zhou/Daily Bruin)