Two UCLA-affiliated groups are competing for $100,000 grants, which they would use to improve Los Angeles. More than 280 organizations submitted proposals to the My LA2050 Grants Challenge. Read more...
Photo: The South Bay Center for Counseling entered the My LA2050 Grants Challenge with a project called Co/Lab that would help county residents form neighborhood advocacy groups to address local issues. (Courtesy of Chandelle Wiede)
Students discussed feminist issues and considered their visions for gender equality at student-run event on the Hill on Wednesday. The Intergroup Relations Program hosted a dinner dialogue about what they call white feminism. Read more...
Photo: (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)
A reverend who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. told UCLA community members that violence cannot be used to improve the United States. The Rev. James Lawson Jr., who teaches at UCLA, and other civil rights activists spoke at a teach-in event Tuesday that aimed to engage students in dialogue about nonviolent protests. Read more...
Photo: David Huerta, president of the California branch of a worker union, spoke to UCLA community members about the importance of nonviolent protest at a panel Tuesday. (Sihui Song/Daily Bruin)
Students from both UCLA and USC put rivalry week aside to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s speech toward marginalized groups. About 300 students began protesting in front of Royce Hall at 3 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Students filled Royce Quad on Wednesday to walk out in protest of the negative comments shadowing president-elect Donald Trump’s campaign. (Erin Rice/Daily Bruin)
UCLA removed posters promoting white supremacy and xenophobic attitudes on campus earlier this week. The posters promoted the “UCLA White Students Group,” and said the government has embraced the replacement of whites and appeasement of the demands of minority groups. Read more...
Photo: Some posters with positive messages were defaced with graffiti hostile to undocumented students and other groups (Sam Hoff/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Nov. 16 at 4:18 p.m. Skilled trade workers and administrative workers went on strike Wednesday, claiming that UCLA bargained with them in bad faith over a new contract. Read more...
Photo: Teamsters Local 2010, the union representing skilled trades and administrative workers, went on strike Wednesday alleging UCLA refused to negotiate on back pay. (Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin)
Sproul Hall hosts teddy bear philanthropy for children's hospitals Read more...
Photo: From left to right: Shubhra Singh, first-year aerospace engineering student; Roey Paz-Priel, first-year aerospace engineering student; and Mumbae Kim, first-year computer science student. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
