This post was updated Nov. 8 at 9:51 a.m. Student and faculty groups hosted a virtual post-election healing event Thursday to give students a place to discuss and digest the 2020 election. Read more...
Photo: Student and faculty groups hosted a virtual event after the election to help students process the election results. (Anika Chakrabarti/Daily Bruin staff)
Student leaders have revised their plan to rename the Janss Steps and will instead propose a more inclusive name. Undergraduate Students Association Council leaders and students from the American Indian Student Association now plan to make a proposal to rename Janss Steps to “Kuruvungna Steps,” after previously having passed a resolution calling on UCLA to rename Janss Steps to “Tongva Steps.” Both the Kuruvungna name and the Tongva name were meant to honor Indigenous people who originally inhabited Los Angeles and the UCLA land, said AISA Vice Chair Desirae Barragan. Read more...
Photo: Student leaders are proposing a new and more inclusive name to replace the Janss Steps name. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Nov. 8 at 8:16 p.m. with current polling data and student and faculty interviews. This post was updated Nov. 4 at 1:33 p.m. Read more...
Photo: California voters have rejected Proposition 16, which would have allowed public institutions to reinstate affirmative action. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
This post was updated Nov. 3 at 9:41 p.m. In-person voting at UCLA spiked on Election Day relative to early voting, but poll workers and voters said wait times were still nonexistent. Read more...
Photo: Voters casted their ballots at Ackerman Student Union and Bradley International Hall on Election Day with little wait time. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
The UCLA community heard professors and a Nobel Prize winner lecture on a variety of science topics from black holes to water purification at the first-ever virtual iteration of UCLA’s annual science fair. Read more...
Photo: Exploring Your Universe, UCLA’s annual science outreach program went virtual this year. The event was able to use a virtual platform to simulate the live booths, speaker stage as well as the planetarium show. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Nov. 8 at 8:13 p.m. Dozens of activists gathered at the Jackie Robinson Stadium parking lot Sunday to criticize UCLA’s role in letting the LAPD use the lot to detain protesters in June and to protest campus policing. Read more...
Photo: Activists gathered in the Jackie Robinson Stadium parking lot Sunday to criticize the lot’s use by LAPD to detain protesters June 1. Attendees laid white tiles printed with a picture of handcuffs on the pavement. (Jason Zhu/Daily Bruin staff)
The Graduate Students Association is the voice of graduate students on campus. The association meets for forum every three weeks and takes positions on current issues affecting graduate students. Read more...
