As a first-generation college student, Juana Hernandez often struggled to find people she could identify with while studying at UCLA and after starting her career. “I felt no representation in books, curriculum, classroom. Read more...
Photo: The First Gen Alumni Network hosted its inaugural launch event Monday evening. The event featured alumni speakers, a musical performance and time for participants to network with one another. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
Isaac Felix woke up before sunrise to get to elementary and middle school, only to wait in four-hour lines at the U.S.-Mexico border because he attended school in the United States while living in Mexico. Read more...
Photo: Estefania Castañeda Pérez and Isaac Felix helped co-found the Transfronterizo Alliance Student Organization at UCLA. TASO aims to provide a community for students who frequently have to travel across the U.S.-Mexico border for educational purposes. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Students will be served free leftover food from the Hill’s dining halls, tentatively starting Feb. 15. Student organizations Hunger Project, Swipe Out Hunger and Students for Students partnered with UCLA Dining Services to launch Bruin Dine, which will distribute leftover food from De Neve, Feast and Covel dining halls in the Kerckhoff State Rooms from 9:30 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Leftover food from De Neve, Feast and Covel dining halls will be served to students in the Kerckhoff State Rooms from 9:30 p.m. to 10:50 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA has enacted recommendations proposed by a task force in 2016 to improve the campus’ safety preparedness procedures and emergency notification systems. Campus Safety Task Force, which was established after a murder-suicide on campus in June 2016, has helped the campus make various improvements to its emergency preparation procedures. Read more...
Photo: Campus Safety Task Force, which was established after a murder-suicide on campus in June 2016, has made various improvements to UCLA’s emergency preparation procedures, such as expanding the university’s emergency communication protocols and notification systems. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Feb. 5 at 6:19 p.m. Students were evacuated from Ackerman Union on Monday after a chemical smell originating from the Engineering V building triggered fire alarms. Read more...
Photo: Students and workers were evacuated from Ackerman Union at 3:17 p.m. Monday. Steve Jurado, assistant fire marshal at UCLA, said the smell came from a substance in a laboratory in the Engineering V building. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Assistant Photo editor)
The incoming Associated Students UCLA executive director plans to use his engineering and business background to approach the association’s ongoing financial issues. UCLA alumnus Pouria Abbassi will begin his term Feb. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Pouria Abbassi will become the next Associated Students UCLA executive director Feb. 28, succeeding Robert Williams. (Michael Zshornack/Photo editor)
At an event Wednesday night, students commemorated Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy by delivering speeches that alluded to King’s final speech. UCLA Residential Life, the Afrikan Student Union and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Read more...
Photo: Students performed spoken word and poetry and reflected on Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech at an oratorical contest Wednesday. (Farida Saleh/Daily Bruin)
