Thursday, August 20

In the news:

LGBT Campus Resource Center discusses findings of external review

LGBT Campus Resource Center officials and members of the UCLA community discussed the initial findings of an external investigation intended to suggest additional resources for LGBT individuals on campus. Read more...

Photo: Students attended a town hall the LGBT Campus Resource Center hosted in the Students Activities Center on Thursday after a committee investigated ways the center can improve. (Diana Celeste Luna/Daily Bruin)


Student families safe following earthquake in Taiwan

The 6.4-magnitude earthquake that shook Tainan, Taiwan, last Saturday left many UCLA students worried about family members who live in the city. A 16-story residential building that collapsed during the earthquake left 59 people dead and 76 missing, according to the New York Times. Read more...




UCLA team travels to Uganda to treat patients with obstetric fistula

Every year, a small city in Uganda transforms into a center of free surgery for patients who suffer a painful, unusual complication from childbirth – a hole torn between the birth canal and the bladder or rectum. Read more...

Photo: Christopher Tarnay, division chief of female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and UCLA doctors travel to Uganda each year to help people with childbirth complications. (Courtesy of Oscar Zagal)


UCLA allows professor in ongoing Title IX lawsuit to resume teaching

A UCLA history professor involved in an ongoing Title IX lawsuit reached an agreement with UCLA that will allow him to return to teach. Gabriel Piterberg was suspended last spring quarter without pay and resigned from his position as director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies last May, after two graduate students filed sexual assault complaints against him. Read more...


USAC recap – Feb. 9

The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government representing the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Read more...

Photo: The undergraduate student government approves a five-day election calendar. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)



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