A couple hundred people gathered in Bruin Plaza on Thursday during a walkout to demonstrate in support of Palestine. The walkout – which was organized by more than 10 student groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA and UC Divest Coalition at UCLA – began at 2 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Pictured are demonstrators from the walkout Thursday. The group gathered in Bruin Plaza before moving to Murphy Hall. (Joseph Jimenez/Photo editor)
Hundreds of people attended a vigil Wednesday evening in Bruin Plaza to honor the lives lost in attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers. The vigil, which was hosted at 7 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Pictured is a layout of candles at a vigil, which was held in Bruin Plaza by Jewish organizations at UCLA on Wednesday night. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Oct 12 at 10:51 p.m. The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations hosted former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin on Oct. Read more...
Photo: Former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin is pictured. Marin delivered the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations’ annual lecture on the conditions of peace to provide students with an insight on European conflicts and international cooperation. (Nicolas Greamo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously passed a resolution March 14 in solidarity with the Armenians of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, which implored UCLA to denounce anti-Armenian sentiment and support Armenian students. Read more...
Photo: People gather around candles in front of Powell Library. The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution in support of the Armenians of Artsakh. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
A recent policy report co-authored by UCLA researchers revealed that systemic discrimination against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities persists in California state laws. UCLA received a $1.4 million grant in 2021 to conduct research investigating the current state of AAPI communities and their struggles, said Hiroshi Motomura, co-author of the report and a faculty co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA School of Law is pictured. A recent policy report co-authored by UCLA researchers found systemic discrimination against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in some California state laws. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Dozens of Bruins and protesters gathered in front of Royce Hall on Wednesday to denounce discrimination against women and political oppression in Iran. The event – organized by the Iranian Student Group at UCLA, Iranian Scholars for Liberty and Persian fraternity Sigma Pi Beta – was organized to amplify Iranian women’s voices and bring international attention to their repression, said Paria, a fourth-year cognitive science major and president of ISG, who requested to remain anonymous for safety reasons. Read more...
Photo: (Ethan Manafi/Daily Bruin staff)
Russian chess grandmaster and political activist Garry Kasparov delivered this year’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on Monday evening. The lecture series – sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for Internal Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and Hillel at UCLA – celebrates the memory of Pearl, a journalist who was abducted and killed by terrorists in 2002 while reporting in Pakistan. Read more...
Photo: Garry Kasparov speaks at the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture on Monday evening, discussing the state of democracy abroad and in the United States. (Constanza Montemayor/Daily Bruin senior staff)
