Saturday, April 11

Members of ROTC reflect on growing integration of women in military

Cheska Molina is known for being one of the fastest runners in UCLA’s ROTC battalion. Cheska Molina, a first-year human biology and society student, and her twin Charina Molina, who is also in the ROTC program at UCLA and a human biology and society student, were even part of the UCLA Ranger Challenge team, which comprises eight to 10 of the fittest cadets in UCLA’s 92-person Army ROTC battalion. Read more...

Photo: Ashley Fairbanks, a fourth-year communication student, and Clare Gavin, a first-year history student, are cadets in UCLA’s Army ROTC. (Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin)


USAC candidate creates one-person slate to promote transparency

A general representative candidate said he created his new one-person, student-run political slate to address what he considers to be a lack of inclusion and transparency between the current undergraduate student government and the campus community. Read more...

Photo: Andrew Sokoler, a Candidates Operating Clearly candidate running for general representative, said that, although he and his campaign managers do not have any prior experience with student government, they are confident in their ability to bring change to campus. (Edward Qiao/Daily Bruin senior staff)


ROTC students trained to think creatively in positions of leadership

Grayson Makris contemplated how his platoon was going to proceed as he planned its mission on a terrain model he drew in the dirt in front of him. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Army ROTC cadets participated in their annual Spring Field Training Exercise in April. Cadets lived in Camp Roberts, an army base in central California, for three days and simulated U.S. Army infantry missions. (Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin)


Federal judge rules that U.S. must resume DACA applications

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the United States must resume new applications for a program that deferred deportation for undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children. Read more...

Photo: A federal judge ruled Tuesday in NAACP v. Trump and Princeton v. U.S. that the Department of Homeland Security did not adequately explain the legal judgment it used to rule DACA unlawful. (Michael Zshornack/Photo editor)


Polling locations announced for neighborhood council special election

Students and Westwood community members will be able to vote to create a new neighborhood council at two locations May 22. The Los Angeles City Clerk released the locations of two polling places in Westwood on Monday for the subdivision process to create the North Westwood Neighborhood Council. Read more...

Photo: The John Wooden Center is one of two polling locations for the North Westwood Neighborhood Council subdivision special election May 22. Students and Westwood community members will also be able to vote at the Westwood Recreation Center. (Daily Bruin file photo)



Law student to end five-year run on Westwood Neighborhood Council

Angus Beverly has seen more students engage with local issues since he became a board member of the Westwood Neighborhood Council. Beverly, a student at UCLA School of Law, is ending his term on the Westwood Neighborhood Council, which advises the city council on Westwood issues, after graduating on May 11. Read more...

Photo: Angus Beverly, who is graduating from UCLA law in May, had his last meeting on the Westwood Neighborhood Council in March. Beverly, one of the council’s student members, served on the council for more than five years and helped address Westwood’s traffic and safety problems. (Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)