The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Read more...
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January 27, 3:32 pm
USAC recap – Jan. 22
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January 24, 11:46 pm
Student organization hosts event to raise awareness of gun violence campaign
UCLA students signed and stamped their handprints to a mural installation to promote gun control at an event Thursday. Bruins for a Safer America, a bipartisan student organization that advocates for gun reform, partnered with the shoe company Toms to host the event to raise awareness about their #EndGunViolenceTogether campaign. Read more...
Photo: Bruins for a Safer America, a bipartisan student organization that advocates for gun reform, partnered with the shoe company Toms to host the event to raise awareness about their #EndGunViolenceTogether campaign. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
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January 24, 11:39 pm
UCLA alumni create online encyclopedia powered by cryptocurrency
Four UCLA alumni developed an online, cryptocurrency-driven encyclopedia to increase inclusivity on the internet. UCLA alumni Sam Kazemian, Travis Moore and Kedar Iyer, along with their friend Mahbod Moghadam, created Everipedia in 2015. Read more...
Photo: Three UCLA alumni, Sam Kazemian, Travis Moore and Kedar Iyer, helped create Everipedia, an online, cryptocurrency-driven encyclopedia in 2015. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin staff)
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January 24, 12:17 am
USAC scholarship attempts to tackle textbook affordability issues
Alex Saucedo said he sometimes had to choose between being able to purchase the required textbooks for his classes and having food to eat for the day. Read more...
Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council Financial Supports Commission gave 40 students scholarships in the form of $50 gift cards to help pay for textbooks. Over 130 students applied. (Daily Bruin file photo)
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January 23, 12:38 am
Employees leave UCLA Extension amid administrative turmoil and loss of deans
About 75 employees left UCLA Extension amid administrative upheaval, despite UCLA cancelling an initial plan to lay off about one-quarter of UCLA Extension’s employees last year. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Extension planned to layoff 25 percent of its employees last year. Instead, almost a third of its employees quit and its upper administrators have been removed. (Daanish Bhatti/Daily Bruin)
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January 22, 12:42 am
Assistant professor of Italian wins prestigious publication award
When Andrea Moudarres developed his doctoral dissertation at Yale University, he did not expect that it would one day turn into an award-winning manuscript. Moudarres, an assistant professor of Italian at UCLA, was recently awarded the 21st annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies. Read more...
Photo: Andreas Moudarres, an assistant professor of Italian at UCLA, was recently awarded the 21st annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies. He received the award for his manuscript “The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso.” (Edward Savaria, Jr., courtesy of the Modern Language Association)
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January 17, 11:27 pm
Out-of-state students say spending time on Hill during break is too expensive
Many students said staying through winter break is burdensome to international and out-of-state students due to high costs. UCLA Housing charges $75 for students to stay on the Hill for one night after fall quarter finals, and $1,105.00 to stay over winter break. Read more...