This post was updated Jan. 16 at 5:52 p.m. The general representative 1 resigned at the Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting. USAC discussed procedures on how to fill the seat’s vacancy. Read more...
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Campus, Los Angeles, News
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January 15, 10:18 am
UCLA announces its vaccination plan for faculty and staff
This post was updated Jan. 18 at 5:12 p.m. UCLA plans to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to some faculty and staff within the next few weeks, university administrators announced at a town hall Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Some faculty might be able to receive COVID-19 vaccines from UCLA by as early as February, UCLA administrators announced at a Thursday town hall. (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)
California, News, UC
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January 14, 4:58 pm
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes increase in UC funding for 2021-2022 academic year
The University of California would receive a $383.8 million budget increase under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed state budget released Friday – with the expectation that the UC does not increase in-state tuition. Read more...
Los Angeles, News, Science & Health
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January 14, 3:03 pm
New, more contagious, COVID-19 strain reaches Southern California
This post was updated Jan. 18 at 6:24 p.m. A new COVID-19 strain could already be present in Los Angeles County, and its higher transmissibility rate could be contributing to an early-year surge of COVID-19 cases, UCLA professors said. Read more...
Photo: Health experts say that the new variant of COVID-19, which is more contagious, could already exist in LA County. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
Higher Education, News, UC
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January 14, 2:26 pm
CALPIRG leads push for UC-wide open textbooks grant plan
University of California students and faculty are asking the UC Board of Regents to fund a systemwide open textbook grant program. The California Public Interest Research Group, a student activist organization, began a textbook affordability campaign in 2007 after other student PIRGs started similar campaigns. Read more...
Photo: Students and faculty have signed petitions asking the UC Board of Regents to implement a systemwide open textbook grant plan. The California Public Interest Research Group has its own textbook affordability campaign and is aiming to work with the regents on the program. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
News, Student Government
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January 12, 8:43 pm
USAC General Representative 1 Jong Hyeon Lee resigns at council meeting
This post was updated Jan. 13 at 11:24 a.m. An undergraduate student government representative resigned at a Tuesday council meeting. Jong Hyeon Lee, the Undergraduate Students Association Council General Representative 1, said at the Tuesday USAC meeting he will declare nonattendance at UCLA because of financial and personal reasons. Read more...
Photo: A student government general representative resigned at the Tuesday Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting, and said he will declare nonattendance because of personal reasons, which would make him ineligible for office. (Left to right: Courtesy of Jong Hyeon Lee, Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
A Closer Look, News
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January 12, 8:08 pm
UCLA professor sheds light on Indonesian anti-communist purge in upcoming book
This post was last updated Jan. 16 at 5:58 p.m. Some Indonesians have been moved to tears when they learn about the true history of mass violence in their country, said Elizabeth Mulyani, an Indonesian artist based in Belgium. Read more...
Photo: Co-authors Geoffrey Robinson (top left), a history professor at the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Douglas Kammen (right), a Southeast Asian studies associate professor at the National University of Singapore, have been building a visual archive of Indonesia’s 1965-1966 anti-communist purge since 2016. With the help of Belgium-based artist Elisabeth Mulyani (bottom left), they have collected around 2,000 images. (Clockwise from top left: Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin, courtesy of Dr. Kammen, Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)