Edwin Cifuentes, a contracted valet worker at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said many valet workers who are being transferred away from UCLA are worried their new jobs will not offer them the same wages or benefits UCLA provided. Read more...
Photo: Valet contract workers for ABM have protested UCLA’s in-sourcing alongside AFSCME at places including the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in July and at the inaugural UC public law conference in September. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
Photo: Members of Refuse Fascism Los Angeles burned a “Make America Great Again” hat, President Donald Trump’s campaign hat, in Bruin Plaza on Thursday at 11 a.m. and called for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to be driven out of office. Members also called for UCLA students to join a national protest against Trump’s administration Nov. 4. “Since when is it normal for two white supremacists to be in the White House?” said UCLA alumna Luna Gonzalez. “That’s what this hat represents.” (Chelsea Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Incoming first-year undergraduate students are increasingly concerned with the cost of their education, a national survey found. The Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshman Survey found 55.9 percent of incoming first-year students are at least somewhat concerned with the cost of their education and 13.3 percent have major concerns about financing their education. Read more...
Students grabbed cookies and condoms on their way into an event on sexual education Thursday. Lisa Ling, a CNN journalist, led a discussion on sexual education in U.S. Read more...
Photo: CNN journalist Lisa Ling moderated a panel on the state of sex education in the United States at an event at the Northwest Auditorium on the Hill Thursday. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
This article was updated Oct. 6 at 11:05 a.m. The Associated Students UCLA is expected to lose more than $1 million this year. Robert Williams, ASUCLA’s executive director, said the organization has budgeted a $1,298,000 loss for ASUCLA’s Services and Enterprises entity this fiscal year because of decreasing textbook sales and growing labor costs. Read more...
Economics students will soon be able to specialize their education by enrolling in a concentration that focuses on a particular goal or academic interest. The economics department is launching concentrations this quarter, which will be optional and consist of sets of suggested upper division courses that students in the department can take to focus on a specific area of economics, according to the department’s website. Read more...
Photo: Bunche hall serves as the home of the economics department, which will introduce a set of concentrations this quarter. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Andy Talajkowski said they feel more validated and acknowledged after changing their name on their new BruinCard. “I think it’s ridiculous how the legal name is still used as the primary identification – UCLA should cater to different student communities,” Talajkowski, a third-year English student said. Read more...
Photo: Since July, students have been able to use their preferred names on their BruinCards. The Undergraduate Students Association Council Office of the President plans to work with other campus offices to remove students’ legal names altogether. (Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)
