Inspired by and in cooperation with the ‘Carry That Weight’ project of Columbia student Emma Sulkowitz, UCLA students join to show support for survivors of sexual assault. Read more...
Photo: (Alena Maschke/Daily Bruin)
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October 30, 1:30 am
Students carry mattresses in solidarity with sexual assault survivors
Sexual assault survivors and advocates carried mattresses covered in the handwritten accounts of their experiences with gender-based violence in a student-led demonstration Wednesday. The event was inspired by Emma Sulkowicz, a Columbia University student who lost her disciplinary case against the man she claimed raped her in a university dorm room two years ago. Read more...
Photo: Students carry mattresses through Bruin Plaza and across other walks of campus to symbolize the emotional weight that survivors of sexual assault carry each day. The students marched in a loop, past Murphy Hall, through UCLA’s sculpture garden and back to the Bruin Bear. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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October 30, 12:51 am
Report shows UCLA law school alumni among highest paid in nation
UCLA School of Law alumni salaries ranked fourth among the nation’s law schools in a postgraduate earnings report published last week by the employment site PayScale. Read more...
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October 29, 3:14 am
UCLA faculty to vote on implementing diversity requirement
If faculty vote this week to implement a diversity course requirement, UCLA will become the second to last University of California campus to do so. Among the nine UC campuses with undergraduate student bodies, seven have approved general education requirements in the last 25 years to teach students about structural inequalities and underrepresented groups in California and the U.S. Read more...
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October 29, 3:13 am
Leaked emails reveal partnership between Hillel, PR firm
A rabbi at UCLA Hillel is working with a national public relations firm to strategize against potential divestment resolutions on campus, according to recently leaked emails. Read more...
Photo: According to leaked emails, a rabbi at UCLA Hillel is working with a national public relations firm to strategize against potential divestment resolutions on campus. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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October 29, 3:10 am
‘Bikes 4 Orphans’ initiative raises funds to support education abroad
Professional cyclists streaking by in neon blurs made a lasting impression on Sebouh Bazikian. He was in eighth grade and at his first bike-a-thon, taking in the scene while pedaling at his own pace. Read more...
Photo: First-year Sebouh Bazikian mounts his racing bike, which helped inspire the charity he created when he was 16 to deliver bicycles to orphans who must walk several miles to get to school. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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October 29, 3:06 am
USAC passes resolution to educate students about Prop. 47
With an 11-1-0 vote, the undergraduate student government passed a resolution Tuesday calling for students to learn more about a proposition in the upcoming midterm election that would lower criminal sentences for some nonviolent crimes. Read more...
Photo: Undergraduate Students Association Council President Devin Murphy speaks to a group of students about Proposition 47, which will be on the Nov. 4 California midterm election ballot. (Eva Sidhu/Daily Bruin)