Student employees at UCLA’s Housing Mail Center sort and distribute everything Bruins receive, from musical instruments to couches to electric scooters. Arianna Benton, a third-year English student, said she has been a mailroom clerk since fall 2023. Read more...
Photo: Aaron Huang – a mailroom clerk, or “blue polo” – scans a package. Student mailroom clerks process over a thousand packages daily in UCLA’s Hill mailroom in Delta Terrace. (Andrew Diaz/Daily Bruin)
One of the first decisions organizers made when planning the Black Extravaganza was to cater food from Fixins – a downtown Los Angeles soul food restaurant. Read more...
Photo: Students from the East African Student Association perform at the Black Extravaganza on Feb. 21 in the Covel Commons Grand Horizon Ballroom. The annual event, hosted by the Afrikan Diaspora Living Learning Community, featured performances from Black student organizations on campus. (Brianna Carlson/Daily Bruin staff)
The destruction of Eliana Bernstein’s Pacific Palisades home also threatened the loss of her Westwood apartment. Bernstein, a third-year political science student, said she moved into her apartment just a few days before the Jan. Read more...
Photo: Eliana Bernstein stands in the rubble of her home in Pacific Palisades. Bernstein, a third-year political science student, lost her home in the Palisades fire. (Courtesy of Eliana Bernstein)
This post was updated March 2 at 11:23 p.m. A UCLA comparative literature course is expanding access to educational materials with a textbook generated using artificial intelligence. Read more...
Photo: Kaplan Hall, the site of many comparative literature courses, is pictured. A UCLA comparative literature course is expanding access to educational materials with a textbook generated using artificial intelligence. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Californians’ race, sexuality and income are connected to inequities in health-related issues, according to a UCLA study. The California Health Interview Survey published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy found minorities have more negative health-related experiences. Read more...
Photo: The Fielding School of Public Health is pictured. People’s race, sexuality and income are connected to inequities in health-related issues, according to the California Health Interview Survey. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Feb. 28 at 2:10 p.m. Jason Utas has long been in the craft of buying and selling meteorites. But Utas – a graduate student studying earth, planetary and space sciences – said that in 2022 he found something particularly unusual on eBay, an online marketplace and auction site. Read more...
Photo: Over 1,500 meteorites and celestial objects are housed in UCLA’s Meteorite Museum, the largest meteorite collection on the West Coast. One of UCLA’s meteorites was recently listed on eBay, causing controversy. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Feb. 28 at 1:05 a.m. The Daily Bruin covers breaking news events as they happen. This page will cover the latest from the February 2025 strikes and will provide the most important updates in a summary of the strike as it happens. Read more...
Photo: Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 picket on the UCLA campus. The union is striking against the UC on Wednesday and Thursday. (Max Zhang/Daily Bruin)
