More than 100 students met at Hillel at UCLA Thursday to discuss a strategy to persuade the undergraduate student government to shift its attention away from political and international issues. Read more...
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November 14, 7:31 am
Pro-Israel coalition seeks to shift USAC focus back to campus issues
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November 13, 1:12 am
ACM opens Speaker Series with talk by Internet pioneer, UCLA professor
Forty-five years ago, he sent the first ever instant message from the halls of Boelter to a computer in a Stanford lab. The Stanford computer crashed almost instantly, flashing just the letters "LO" before going blank. Read more...
Photo: Leonard Kleinrock, one of the Internet’s early pioneers, spoke to about 30 students in a crowded Boelter Hall classroom Wednesday. (Kailey Rishovd/Daily Bruin)
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November 13, 12:56 am
GSA fills seat for vice president of internal affairs
The graduate student government elected UCLA law student Milan Chatterjee to fill a vacant cabinet seat Wednesday. Chatterjee, formerly the director of Graduate Students Association’s discretionary funding, ran against Heidi Alexander and Matthew FitzGerald for the GSA vice president of internal affairs position. Read more...
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November 13, 12:51 am
Philanthropist gifts $10 million for new center at TFT
A Los Angeles-based philanthropist recently donated $10 million to launch a new center at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Jeff Skoll, founder and chairman of Participant Media and former president of eBay, gave $10 million to create the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment. Read more...
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November 12, 1:48 pm
UCPD arrests former UCLA student for YRL laptop theft
Police arrested a UCLA alumnus Tuesday in connection with the weekend theft of more than 50 MacBook laptops from the Charles E. Young Research Library. Read more...
Photo: UCPD retrieved 53 laptops late Tuesday from Seyed Hesari’s Hollywood home. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
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November 12, 1:38 am
Student brings back stories from relief mission in typhoon-struck Philippines
One of Alana Sanchez-Prak’s larger host families during her trip to the Philippines relied on coconut trees as its primary source of income. The mother of the family remembered watching the roof fly off her home and seeing the trees collapse while trying to get her family to safety. Read more...
Photo: Undeclared second-year Alana Sanchez-Prak gives lecture about a typhoon aid relief project that she worked on in the Philippines. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
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November 12, 1:17 am
SJP members address divestment resolution at town hall meeting
#attachment_202260 { margin:5px; } About 100 students met in a Haines Hall classroom Monday to fine-tune the language of a divestment resolution the undergraduate student government will vote on next week. Read more...