An undergraduate student government committee recommended Monday the council create a new position of food security director and increase its role in ensuring student safety, among other changes. Read more...
Photo: (Anthony Tran/Daily Bruin) The USAC Constitutional Review Committee recommended Monday the council create a new position of food security director and increase its role in ensuring student safety.
Manying Ng-Argudo’s family was at a mall in Ecuador when an earthquake struck. The mall’s electricity was cut and people began to jump from the second floor to the first in panic to avoid getting trapped on escalators and inside elevators. Read more...
Photo: Ecuadorian students met Saturday to recount how they rushed to contact family after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador April 16.
UCLA agreed to release animal treatment records in response to a lawsuit an animal welfare organization filed in 2013 that alleged UCLA withheld public documents. The Animal Legal Defense Fund represented Stop Animal Exploitation Now an animal welfare organization, in the lawsuit. Read more...
Photo: The Animal Justice Project protested against animal experimentation in research studies Friday. The protest was a few days before Stop Animal Exploitation Now plans to release documents that allegedly show evidence of animal neglect. (Owen Emerson/Photo assistant editor)
Carole Goldberg, vice chancellor for academic personnel, enrolled in law school in 1968 with the intention of providing legal services to the poor. But after taking a seminar in Native American law and writing a paper that was cited by the U.S. Read more...
Photo: Carole Goldberg, vice chancellor for academic personnel, helps Native Americans with legal issues and studies tribal justice systems. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Eduardo de la Cruz intones a ritual prayer to bless seeds of corn in a UCLA professor’s backyard one Friday afternoon. Earlier that day, a group of UCLA students dug little holes in a patch of soft dirt in preparation for the blessing. Read more...
Photo: Juan Pablo Morales-Garzen, a graduate student in history, and Jessica Sanchez, a Latin American studies student, spent Friday morning digging holes to plant corn seeds. The students were invited to professor Kevin Terraciano’s backyard to learn about Mesoamerican cultures. (Zinnia Moreno/Daily Bruin)
This year’s Westwood Neighborhood Council election will feature 24 candidates, including 14 council members up for re-election, according to the list of candidates released Thursday. Westwood residents, business owners and UCLA students can vote in the election, which takes place every two years in June. Read more...
This post was updated on April 22 at 4:45 p.m. Animal rights activists marched to Chancellor Gene Block’s office Friday with signs depicting bleeding monkeys and other animals to protest animal testing in campus research labs. Read more...
Photo: Julia Orr, an organizer for the Animal Justice Project, has protested UCLA’s animal testing practices for the last 10 years. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
