Fresh flowers, candles, hand-drawn portraits and Greek letters decorated an altar for UCLA student Brenda Coronel at a vigil Monday. Coronel, who was from Salinas and studied political science, was killed in a car accident on April 26 on the 605 Freeway in Los Alamitos. Read more...
Photo: Friends and sorority sisters of Brenda Coronel gathered outside the Student Activities Center on Monday to honor Coronel’s life. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Tehya Faulk’s father, J.C. Faulk, walked arm in arm with his U.S. congressman and state senator while leading black spiritual songs at a Baltimore demonstration, where protestors behind them carried handmade signs that read “Justice for Freddie Gray!” and “Black Lives Matter.” Read more...
This post was updated on May 4 at 6:05 p.m. Voter turnout in this year’s barely-contested graduate student government election dropped to about 8 percent, the lowest since 2012. Read more...
The Westwood AT&T store plans to relocate down the street to the previous location of Urban Outfitters on Westwood Boulevard by the end of the year. Read more...
Photo: The AT&T store is currently located on the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Weyburn Avenue. The store plans to relocate to the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Kinross Avenue, where it will take the spot formerly occupied by Urban Outfitters. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
Losing her mother to cancer sparked Laura Kaufman’s decision to join Colleges Against Cancer as a first-year student at UCLA, and she has participated in Relay for Life every year since. Read more...
Photo: Relay for Life participants performed one last “Wobble Dance” during the closing ceremony of the event Sunday morning. (Matt Cummings/Daily Bruin)
Several hundred parents, children and educators attended the first Bilingual Fair of Los Angeles on campus Sunday, featuring roughly 40 exhibits from bilingual and multilingual schools and publishers in the Los Angeles area. Read more...
Photo: Amy Conroy, a UCLA alum and founder and producer of “Habla Blah Blah,” speaks to a participant about her organization, which fosters foreign-language learning for kids through music. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
“Yo mama, your little girl just won a Pulitzer.” That was the text Alexa Vaughn sent her mother after hearing the news from a colleague at The Seattle Times. Read more...
