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July 6, 9:32 pm

Front Lines Tutoring helps health care workers’ children adjust to pandemic learning

A UCLA student-run volunteer program provides health care workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic with tutoring services for their children. Front Lines Tutoring, a UCLA student-run volunteer initiative started in April, aims to give back to health care workers battling the pandemic by providing tutoring services to their children over Zoom. Read more...

Photo: Mackenzie Lowenstein, a recent graduate in psychobiology, founded Front Lines Tutoring after seeing how students in high school and below were affected by the transition to online classes – especially the children of health care workers. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin)

A Closer Look, Campus, News

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July 6, 8:12 pm

Janss brothers’ history of discrimination prompts call for changing name of steps

This post was updated July 7 at 1:40 p.m. A petition to rename Janss Steps received over 2,000 signatures as of July 6. The petition states that UCLA should rename the steps after an alumnus who changed the world for the better, rather than someone who contributed to institutional racism. Read more...

Photo: More than 2,000 people signed a petition to rename Janss Steps, which is named after Harold Janss and Edwin Janss Sr. who barred people of color from owning properties or businesses in Westwood Village. (Daily Bruin file photo)

News, Westwood

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July 6, 3:11 pm

NWWNC votes to rename Le Conte Avenue, citing namesake’s racist past

This post was updated July 21 at 4:41 p.m. to reflect new statements from the North Westwood Neighborhood Council. Local council members unanimously voted in favor of a resolution to rename Le Conte Avenue in Westwood at a July 1 meeting. Read more...

Photo: The North Westwood Neighborhood Council voted unanimously to rename Westwood’s Le Conte Avenue at a meeting July 1. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)

Campus, News, Science & Health, UC, Uncategorized

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July 5, 5:44 pm

UCLA School of Dentistry fails to implement many COVID-19-mitigating practices

This post was updated July 5 at 10:46 p.m. The UCLA School of Dentistry failed to provide its faculty and residents sufficient protection against COVID-19 by violating established safety protocols and guidelines, residents and faculty said. Read more...

Photo: The School of Dentistry did not provide residents or faculty proper protective equipment, multiple residents and faculty said. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)

News, Science & Health, UC

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July 5, 12:17 pm

The number of blood donations has dropped at UCLA, but the need for them hasn’t

The UCLA Blood and Platelet Center is facing a blood supply shortage amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The UCLA BPC provides blood to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, said Dawn Ward, medical director of UCLA BPC. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Blood and Platelet Center is facing a shortage of blood donations. The blood collected is used by the medical centers around UCLA. Medical procedures and surgeries have increased since May. Courtesy of Noah Danesh (Daily Bruin contributor)

Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council, News, Westwood

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July 3, 4:36 pm

Neighborhood councils across LA endorse cuts to LAPD’s budget, including NWWNC

The Los Angeles City Council made budget cuts to the Los Angeles Police Department following calls for action from neighborhood councils across the city of Los Angeles. Read more...

Photo: The Los Angeles City Council will cut the LAPD’s budget by $150 million after calls to action from local councils across Los Angeles. (Daily Bruin file photo) Photo credit: Firyal Bawab


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