Saturday, May 16

UCLA celebrates Veterans Day, draws student attention to larger issues

Years or even decades after they fought in military conflicts for the U.S., UCLA student veterans gathered Monday at the university’s seventh annual Veterans Day ceremony to contemplate their service and the fights that lie ahead. Read more...

Photo: Military science department chair Lt. Col. Michael S. McDermott gives a speech. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)



Student brings back stories from relief mission in typhoon-struck Philippines

One of Alana Sanchez-Prak’s larger host families during her trip to the Philippines relied on coconut trees as its primary source of income. The mother of the family remembered watching the roof fly off her home and seeing the trees collapse while trying to get her family to safety. Read more...

Photo: Undeclared second-year Alana Sanchez-Prak gives lecture about a typhoon aid relief project that she worked on in the Philippines. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)





Man steals 55 MacBook laptops from YRL

University police are searching for a man wanted for stealing 55 MacBook Pro laptops from the Charles E. Young Research Library early Saturday morning. The laptops were stolen from an equipment loan room on the ground floor that is part of the Campus Library Instructional Computing Commons, police said. Read more...

Photo: University police say a man entered the Charles E. Young Research Library early Saturday morning and stole 55 MacBook Pro laptops. (UCPD)