This post was updated May 19 at 9:30 a.m. A woman who paid for her son’s admission to UCLA was sentenced for bribery Monday. Xiaoning Sui was fined $250,000 by a U.S. Read more...
Photo: Xiaoning Sui was fined $250,000 for paying for her son’s admission to UCLA. Sui, who was also sentenced to time served, is one of the dozens of individuals implicated in the 2019 college admissions scandal. (Daily Bruin file photo)
People say there are two types of journalists: journalists who beg for information and journalists who bulldoze their way for information. UCLA alumnus and former Daily Bruin editor Robert Faturechi falls into the latter, said recent Pulitzer Prize winner T. Read more...
Photo: Robert Faturechi, a ProPublica reporter and Daily Bruin alumnus, recently won a Pulitzer Prize for an investigation he and two other journalists conducted into U.S. Navy leadership in the aftermath of several fatal accidents. (Courtesy of ProPublica)
This post was updated May 7 at 5:45 p.m. The U.S. Department of Education released new Title IX rules Wednesday on how schools and colleges must handle sexual misconduct allegations. Read more...
Photo: U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released new rules Wednesday outlining how schools and colleges should handle sexual misconduct allegations. The rules give greater rights to those accused of sexual misconduct. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A UCLA School of Law project is helping judges and advocates respond to the impact of the novel coronavirus in prisons. Sharon Dolovich, a UCLA School of Law professor and Director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program, founded the UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project on March 17 to track health conditions in incarceration facilities and efforts to decrease prison populations during the pandemic. Read more...
Photo: Researchers at the UCLA School of Law started a data project on March 17 to track health conditions in incarceration facilities and efforts to decrease populations in those facilities. The project has since grown and received positive feedback from judges and advocates using the data for related cases. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
Jorge Salcedo, the former UCLA men’s soccer coach who resigned following his involvement in the 2019 college admission bribery scheme, will plead guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering, according to a plea agreement released Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Former UCLA men’s soccer coach Jorge Salcedo will plead guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering, according to a plea agreement unsealed Tuesday. Salcedo resigned in March 2019 following the initial charges and a first-round exit in the 2018 NCAA tournament. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)
This post was updated April 17 at 10:23 p.m. A recent report from the UCLA Voting Rights Project recommends that legislators and election officials start considering a vote-by-mail system to preserve Americans’ right to vote in the upcoming primary and general elections. Read more...
Photo: A paper from the UCLA Voting Rights Project is recommending that legislators adopt a vote-by-mail system in order to ensure that people can continue to vote throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Some states across the United States have postponed primary elections because of concerns over the pandemic. (Daily Bruin file photo)
University life across the United States has been largely upended because of COVID-19. Find out how the measures schools have taken to stop the spread correlate with local confirmed cases, other schools and more. Read more...
