A UCLA alumnus was awarded the UCLA Medal at Chancellor Gene Block’s residence Wednesday. Morton La Kretz, who graduated from UCLA in 1948, has made many charitable donations to UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Morton La Kretz, who graduated from UCLA in 1948, has made many charitable donations to UCLA. He most recently donated $15 million to the renovation of the La Kretz Botany Building, formerly known as the UCLA Botany Building. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
A civil rights attorney said he thinks the Trump administration is the most anti-Latino administration in the country’s history. Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, spoke about immigration policies at a forum at UCLA Law School on Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, spoke about immigration policies at a forum at the UCLA Law School on Thursday. (Axel Lopex/Assistant Photo editor)
A University of California employee union ended its three-day strike Thursday with hopes the UC will return to bargaining with better offers of health care benefits, retirement benefits and job security. Read more...
Photo: A University of California employee union ended its three-day strike Thursday with hopes the UC will return to bargaining with better offers of health care benefits, retirement benefits and job security. (MacKenzie Coffman/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated Nov. 13 at 2:30 p.m. The North Westwood Neighborhood Council held a selection at John Wooden Center Thursday to determine the members of its interim board. Read more...
Photo: The North Westwood Neighborhood Council held a selection at the John Wooden Center on Thursday to determine the members of its interim board. (Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin senior staff)
UCLA recently acquired a historic theater in Westwood. The UCLA School for the Arts and its performing arts program, the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, announced its acquisition of the Crest Theater in Westwood on Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Brett Steele, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and Kristy Edmunds, artistic and executive director of CAP UCLA, helped acquire the Crest Theater. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
The UCLA Anderson School of Management indefinitely rescheduled an event with a controversial invited speaker. Sam Zell, a billionaire businessman and founder of Equity International, was originally scheduled to speak Thursday from 6 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Journalists expressed concern about Zell’s attendance on social media platforms like Twitter due to his lewd comments on the subject of hiring female colleagues. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The “10 Questions” lecture series, which will address a different question each week, doubles as a course for students and a panel open to the public. Read more...
Photo: In one of her projects, Lauren McCarthy, a design media arts assistant professor, mimicked the Amazon Echo, a smart speaker, by personally automating the participants’ homes herself. She said freedom was lost when people became dependent on artificial intelligence. (Photo courtesy of Hannah Burnett/UCLA Arts)
