Friday, February 13

CSSA celebrates Chinese New Year through culture night

The sounds of rhythmic drumming filled Royce Hall Sunday night as students dressed in red danced gracefully and powerfully to the beat. The performance was part of this year’s Chinese Culture Night, put on by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association. Read more...

Photo: Sunday in Royce Hall was put on by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association.


Consent Week events address sexual assault on campus

Annie E. Clark felt that her school did not treat her report of sexual assault with enough sensitivity, so she became an activist for the rights of students who have experienced sexual assault on college campuses. Read more...

Photo: Third year world arts and cultures student Claudia Varney talks to third year civil engineering student Sarah Reynolds at a display on campus put up for Consent Week.


UCLA students protest to draw attention to Armenian Genocide

Their mouths covered with bands of bright orange tape, about 15 students stood in a straight line in front of Kerckhoff Hall on Thursday to protest and educate students about the Armenian Genocide. Read more...

Photo: Students in the Armenian Students’ Association at UCLA participated in a silent protest on Bruin Walk Thursday to protest denial of the Armenian Genocide by some countries.


Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks to sold-out UCLA crowd

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright would sit in a tent in her living room as she reviewed private material to ensure that no spies would ever see them, she told a sold-out crowd in Royce Hall Wednesday night. Read more...

Photo: Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become U.S. secretary of state, spoke at Royce Hall Wednesday night about globalization, technology and other issues.



Students for Justice in Palestine opens Alex Odeh Memorial Library at UCLA

The library in Kerckhoff 146 blends into the background, but the books on the shelf are crisp, new and hand-picked for a specific reason. The books – which cover novels about Palestine to journals about current events in the Middle Eastern area– are neatly stacked in the single shelf. Read more...

Photo: Kaleb Herman Adney, a fourth-year history student and director of resources and education of Students for Justice in Palestine, peruses a book in the recently established Alex Odeh Memorial Library in Kerckhoff 146. The library, named in memory of a Palestinian-American civil rights leader, contains literature particularly on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.




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