Friday, April 24

Hundreds of women opt out of $73M settlement in James Heaps lawsuit

This post was updated March 17 at 4:32 p.m. Hundreds of women who were allegedly sexually assaulted by a former UCLA gynecologist are opting out of a $73 million class-action settlement that was preliminarily approved by a judge in January. Read more...

Photo: Hundreds are opting out of the $73 million settlement to pursue individual litigation against UCLA and former UCLA OB-GYN James Heaps.(Daily Bruin file photo)


LA County to reopen indoor dining, gyms on Monday after moving into red tier

This post was updated March 12 at 3:12 p.m. to reflect new information from the LACDPH.  Los Angeles County will loosen restrictions on indoor dining and other indoor businesses starting Monday after California met a vaccine distribution threshold, state health officials announced Friday. Read more...

Photo: Los Angeles County will move into the red tier of the state’s reopening guidelines starting Sunday after being in the purple tier since August. The county will begin implementing the loosened restrictions Monday. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)


Recovering from COVID-19 looks different for many students who had the disease

Some UCLA students said they experienced fatigue and struggled with a lack of motivation while isolating and recovering from COVID-19. Facing the symptoms and isolation of COVID-19 was a shocking experience for Terran Cole, a fourth-year biochemistry student who contracted the virus in January. Read more...

Photo: (Nathan Koketsu/Daily Bruin)


USAC recap – March 9

Public Comment: Prabhdeep Rai, the UCLA California Public Interest Research Group chapter chair and a fourth-year history student, said CALPIRG progressed in its campaigns for clean energy, voter registration, ending oil drilling and affordable textbooks. Read more...


LAPD’s use of Jackie Robinson Stadium as field jail was inappropriate, report finds

The LAPD was unprepared to handle mass arrests, and its use of the UCLA-leased Jackie Robinson Stadium as a detention center during protests against racial inequality was inappropriate, a report released Thursday found. Read more...

Photo: A report released Thursday evaluating the LAPD’s handling of protests in 2020 found that the use of Jackie Robinson Stadium as a field jail was inappropriate. UCLA leases the stadium for its baseball team and allowed the LAPD to use the lot before it was turned into a field jail. (Anika Chakrabarti/Daily Bruin staff)



Social media campaigns provide education about COVID-19 vaccines

Health care workers and public health advocates are using social media to encourage people to get the COVID-19 vaccine and combat misinformation about COVID-19. Anna Yap, a resident physician at UCLA, started an organization in December with a network of physicians after seeing people spreading COVID-19 misinformation online. Read more...

Photo: To tackle misinformation about the new COVID-19 vaccines, doctors and medical professionals are using social media and other platforms to spread accurate information. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)