This post was updated May 23 at 12:35 a.m. A new website aims to connect underclassmen who want to declare or switch their majors with upperclassmen mentors. Read more...
Photo: DevX, a club that creates apps and online products geared toward UCLA students, held a soft launch earlier this month for BQuest, a website that links students considering different majors with upperclassmen ambassadors from similar fields of study. (Photo courtesy of Linea Anderson)
UCLA alumni who participated in a hunger strike in 1993 said at an event Tuesday they faced racial and cultural barriers as indigenous students. The Eagle and the Condor Liberation Front, a student-led organization that promotes the unity of indigenous peoples, hosted an event to honor the 14-day sit-in and hunger strike in 1993 that led to the creation of the Chicana/o studies department. Read more...
Photo: The event featured panelists who said they were frustrated that the university administration did not approve student proposals for the creation of a Chicano/a studies department in 1990. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
Forensic experts for Los Angeles police testified Tuesday it is inconclusive whether a UCLA student was sexually assaulted before she was killed in 2015. Ernest Park, a criminalist and DNA analyst with LAPD, said he examined samples from the body of Andrea “Andy” DelVesco, who had been killed in her apartment, which was set on fire. Read more...
Students called on undergraduate student government leaders to ensure that the new international student representative office will fight for international students’ financial wellness, mental health and legal rights at a town hall Monday. Read more...
Photo: General Representative 2 Kayla He and Ashraf Beshay, a fifth-year biology student and member of He’s office who advocated for the position’s creation, helped lead a town hall to gather feedback on the how to write the bylaws for the new international student representative office. (Quanzhao “Ari” He/Daily Bruin)
A senior administrator will serve as the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s interim dean, the university announced Tuesday. Alfred Osborne Jr., the current senior associate dean for external affairs at Anderson, has agreed to serve as interim dean after Judy Olian, the current dean, finishes her term at the end of the academic year. Read more...
Photo: Alfred Osborne Jr., the current senior associate dean for external affairs at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, will serve as interim dean of Anderson. (UCLA Newsroom)
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she is depending on young people to advocate for gun control legislation. Members of the Daily Bruin Editorial Board spoke with Feinstein, a Democrat who is running for re-election against California state Sen. Read more...
Photo: Dianne Feinstein said one way to combat tuition rises is to increase Pell Grants. Pell Grants currently cover less than a third of college tuition, she said. Feinstein said she has not voted against a single education program or loan and added she does not intend to ever vote against such proposals. (Sharon Zhen/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A visiting professor introduced potential solutions to the issue of homelessness in Los Angeles at an event Monday evening. Dennis Culhane, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, spoke at a lecture at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Read more...
Photo: Dennis Culhane, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, spoke at an event at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior on Monday. (Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)
