Muslim women wearing hijabs helped tie colorfully patterned headscarves around passersby on Bruin Walk on Thursday morning. Members of the Muslim Student Association at UCLA invited UCLA community members to experience a day in an Islamic headscarf for UCLA’s Hijab Day. Read more...
Photo: Salma Sudarmaji a first-year pre-human biology and society student, has her headscarf fastened as part of the Muslim Students Association’s Hijab Day on Thursday. (Manpreet Kaur Grewal/Daily Bruin)
Student leaders, activists and a city council candidate declared their opposition to Measure S in a press conference Thursday. The undergraduate student government’s Office of the External Vice President, the Graduate Students Association and the BruinsVOTE! Read more...
Photo: Rafi Sands, USAC external vice president, urged students to vote against Measure S at a Thursday press conference. (Farida Saleh/Daily Bruin)
Campus Queries is a new Q&A series in which Daily Bruin readers send in science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. This week, Daniele Bianchi, assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, answers. Read more...
This post was updated March 2 at 6:30 p.m. A University of California, Irvine, professor and former dean who sexually harassed employees continued earning more than $200,000 a year after Title IX investigations found him responsible in 2014. Read more...
Photo: (University of California, Irvine Graduate Division)
Jerry’s Famous Deli, a black building with a wide awning, has stood empty on Weyburn Avenue since 2013. When its original owner died, a Japanese management company bought the building and tried to renovate it, but abandoned the project halfway, said Steve Sann, chair of the Westwood Community Council. Read more...
Photo: The space Jerry’s Famous Deli used to occupy has remained vacant for several years. (Photo illustration by Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin and Harish Balasubramani/Illustrations director)
Companies with financial ties to a $1.2 billion development project in South Los Angeles contributed to a political action committee supporting the re-election campaign of Westwood’s city council member. Read more...
Photo: Paul Koretz, incumbent Los Angeles City Council Member, voted to approve a residential development whose backers have ties to a PAC which sent out campaign mailers supporting him. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Democratic student groups on campus said they hope the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee will work to unify the party to win back power in the government. Read more...
Photo: Tom Perez, former Secretary of Labor under President Barack Obama, was elected the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee last week. (Creative commons photo by Tiffany L. Koebel via Wikimedia Commons)
