Wednesday, February 18

UCLA Transportation to reserve parking spots for grad students

Graduate students who need to stay on campus late at night can enter a lottery over the summer for the chance to get a parking spot in Parking Structure 2 or Parking Structure 9. Read more...

Photo: Parking Structure 2, located near South Campus, is one of the parking structures that will house the 30 parking spots reserved for graduate students. GSA President Michael Skiles said the Graduate Students Association has been documenting the times that Parking Structure 2 was not being fully utilized over the past year. (Michael Zshornack/Assistant Photo editor)




EVP office launches campaign to boost political engagement in youths

Undergraduate student leaders are encouraging UCLA students to be more involved in politics. The undergraduate student government external vice president’s office held Thursday the first event for its new campaign, 2017: Millennials Take Charge. Read more...

Photo: Political leaders spoke to students about political engagement at a panel hosted by the USAC external vice president’s office Thursday. (Esmerelda Lopez/Daily Bruin)


Hundreds of students march in Westwood to protest Trump’s inauguration

About 250 protesters flooded the streets of Westwood after President Donald Trump took the oath of office Friday. The crowd gathered in front of Powell Library before marching down Westwood Boulevard to its intersection with Wilshire Boulevard. Read more...

Photo: A crowd of about 250 walked in the middle of Westwood Boulevard in protest of President Donald Trump. Protesters called on students to walkout of class on Inauguration Day. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)


Researcher fears Trump presidency will hurt HIV research, LGBTQ community

Justin Akin spent years watching his friends and colleagues die from HIV/AIDS, only to discover in 1990 that he also carried the disease. “I spent the ’80s deciding I wouldn’t get tested because I didn’t want to know … if I was going to die,” said Akin, the administrative director at the UCLA Center for HIV Prevention Research. Read more...

Photo: Justin Akin, administrative director at the UCLA Center for HIV Prevention Research, is an activist for the LGBTQ community and HIV-positive himself. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)




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