Monday, April 6


UCLA report finds US suburban schools mirroring urban trends

This post was updated April 2 at 8:45 p.m.  A February report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that suburban schools have been increasingly experiencing educational policy trends previously restricted to urban districts. Read more...

Photo: Royce Hall is pictured. A February report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that racial and ethnic diversity are on the rise in suburban schools. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UC Regents tables vote on Item J1 until May meeting

The UC Board of Regents voted Wednesday to delay its decision on Item J1 – a policy that would prohibit University departments from making political statements on their website homepages – until it reconvenes in May.  The motion to delay the vote until the board’s May meetings passed unanimously and was the second time the regents delayed a vote on the policy since January. Read more...

Photo: Signs put up by community members participating in a sit-in outside the Luskin Conference Center are pictured. The sit-in aims to protest the UC Board of Regents’ Item J1, which was tabled for vote Wednesday. (Megan Cai/Photo editor)


AFSCME Local 3299 demands higher wages, divestment at UC Board of Regents meeting

This post was updated March 21 at 10:35 a.m. Around 100 protesters gathered outside the UC Board of Regents’ meeting Wednesday to call for better contracts and protections for service, patient technical care and skilled craft workers. Read more...

Photo: Pictured is Michael Avant, president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, making a speech outside the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. Protesters gathered outside the UC Board of Regents meeting to call for better contracts and protections for union workers. (Megan Cai/Photo editor)


Protesters sit in at Luskin Conference Center ahead of UC Regents vote on Item J1

Around 40 protesters staged a sit-in Tuesday night to call on the UC Board of Regents to vote against a policy that would prohibit University departments from making political statements. Read more...

Photo: Protesters gather outside the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center to stage a sit-in against a policy up for vote by the UC Board of Regents on Wednesday. The protesters attempted to set up inside the hotel before being forcibly removed by hotel staff. (Dylan Winward/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Luskin alumni discuss policy at city, state levels during panel

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs hosted a panel March 7 with alumni policymakers across Los Angeles to discuss the ongoing housing crisis, the importance of voting and the need for cooperation between local, state and federal governments. Read more...

Photo: (From left to right) Michael Fleming, lecturer of social welfare, Lourdes Castro Ramírez, Los Angeles chief housing and homelessness officer, Assemblyman Isaac Bryan and State senator Caroline Menjivar, are pictured. (Brianna Carlson/Daily Bruin)


USAC passes resolution condemning the ethnic Armenian genocide in Artsakh

The Undergraduate Students Association Council unanimously passed a resolution March 5 condemning the genocide of the ethnic Armenians in Artsakh, a region also known as Nagorno-Karabakh. Read more...

Photo: A board made by the UCLA Armenian Students’ Association and displayed at a September vigil is pictured. The Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a resolution March 5 condemning the genocide of ethnic Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. (Photo by Rita Keushkerian, courtesy of Mary Keushkerian)