Hundreds of students blocked traffic on part of Westwood Boulevard for about an hour Saturday afternoon as part of the annual Student of Color Conference. Read more...
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November 16, 4:23 pm
Students protest lack of diversity in higher ed during UCSA conference
Campus, News, Science & Health
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November 15, 3:56 pm
UCLA unveils sustainability goal as part of Grand Challenge Initiative
UCLA announced a new goal Friday to have the city of Los Angeles use exclusively renewable sources of energy and local water resources by 2050. The project, called “Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles,” is the first in a series of six “grand challenges” UCLA plans to announce over the next five years as part of the UCLA Grand Challenge Initiative. Read more...
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November 15, 2:34 am
Typhoon Haiyan breaks up Bruin families, UCLA groups join relief effort
Denise Panaligan turned on the television Saturday morning and saw images of Typhoon Haiyan for the first time. The third-year biology student from Leyte province in the Philippines, saw her hometown destroyed. Read more...
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November 15, 2:32 am
Bruins in diversity video to discuss initiatives with administrators
The group of students who created the viral "The Black Bruins [Spoken Word]" video to draw attention to the low enrollment of black male students at UCLA plans to meet with administrators to discuss diversity initiatives at the university. Read more...
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November 15, 2:30 am
Samuel Goetz, UCLA alumnus and Holocaust education advocate, dies at 85
Samuel Goetz, a UCLA alumnus and Holocaust survivor who paved the way for the creation of the first Holocaust studies chair at a public university in the United States, died on Oct. Read more...
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November 14, 3:50 pm
UCLA grad students stage sit-in following recent discrimination report
This post was updated at 7:06 p.m. About 25 graduate students staged a sit-in in a Moore Hall classroom Thursday afternoon, in response to a recent investigative report which stated that UCLA’s policies and procedures do not sufficiently address racial discrimination incidents among faculty members. Read more...
Photo: Students staged a sit-in Thursday in Moore Hall in response to a report released in October outlining how UCLA insufficiently treated incidents of racial discrimination.
Campus, News, Student Government
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November 14, 2:00 am
Student groups call for USAC to defer stipend increase
Several student groups are calling for members of the undergraduate student government to defer their stipend increase until next year. About 10 student groups have signed a recently drafted letter that asks the members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council to put the money used to pay for their stipend raises back into a fund dedicated to supporting student groups. Read more...