UCLA labor- and immigration-justice groups held a town hall meeting Monday night to urge UCLA to create more insourced positions for contract valet workers at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Read more...
Photo: Owen Li, a senior researcher for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, said most of the jobs UCLA is offering to current valet workers are part-time jobs and do not offer enough pay enough to live on. (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)
A campus political group is accusing UCLA of suppressing free speech because the university may impose additional security costs for an event the group plans to hold in November. Read more...
Photo: Bruin Republicans has hosted several events in the past featuring conservative speakers. The group is claiming UCLA is stifling its free speech by imposing additional costs on its Ben Shapiro event in November. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Two UCLA alumni are trying to connect voters with local politics and news through a social media app. Matt Pell and Kai Bryant, who both graduated from UCLA in 2015 with history degrees, are in the final stages of developing The Burg, an app meant to encourage civic participation, inform individuals about local politics and ensure elected officials are accurately representing their localities. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumni Matt Pell and Kai Bryant launched The Burg to promote participation in local politics. (Michael Zshornack/Photo editor)
The city of Los Angeles may ban protesters from carrying pepper spray, tasers and improvised shields. The LA City Council asked city attorneys last week to draft a new law that will ban certain items during public demonstrations, a list of which will be approved by the LA Police Department. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles is considering a ban on certain items at protests because of recent protests in Berkeley and Charlottesville, Virginia. Students may no longer be able to bring pepper spray, tasers and makeshift shields to protests. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA professor is developing a new microscopic sensor to monitor the chemical signaling of major neurotransmitters in the brain. Anne Andrews, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, received the National Institutes of Health’s $6 million Transformative Research Award last week for her research, which aims to understand psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. Read more...
Photo: Anne Andrews, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, was recognized by the National Institutes of Health last week for her work researching psychiatric diseases. (Courtesy of Reed Hutchinson)
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law earlier this month aimed at making the University of California’s financial reporting process more transparent. Assembly Bill 1655, which passed unanimously in both houses of the state legislature, adds and amends a section to the state’s education code, to prohibit coordination between UC campuses and the UC Office of the President when a state auditor requests information. Read more...
Photo: Beginning Jan. 1, Assembly Bill 1655 will prohibit coordination between University of California campuses and the UC Office of the President when a state auditor requests information. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA is updating its student records policy to remove student addresses from the campus directory, university officials announced Monday. The Registrar’s Office announced in a campuswide email it will update UCLA Policy 220, which concerns student records disclosures, in accordance with a University of California policy change last month. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Registrar’s Office announced that it will be updating the student records policy to remove student addresses from directory information. (Daily Bruin file photo)
