Bruin Dine, a program that offers free food at De Neve Residential Restaurant on Thursday nights, launched last week for winter quarter. The student-run program, which aims to reduce food waste and address food insecurity on campus, serves unconsumed food from dining halls to students for free on Thursdays from 9 p.m. Read more...
Photo: Students can now get free food every Thursday until week 10 in the private dining room in De Neve with the Bruin Dine program. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Researchers from UCLA and other universities have developed a stable and environmentally friendly method to produce synthesis gas. Synthesis gas, or “syngas” for short, is an industrial material made of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas. Read more...
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A local neighborhood council may call for the removal of nontransit bench dividers in Westwood Village, following a transportation and safety committee vote Jan. 14. The committee, which is a part of the North Westwood Neighborhood Council, recommended the Westwood Village Improvement Association, Westwood’s business improvement district, remove the dividers. Read more...
Photo: Benches with dividers are present throughout Westwood Village and are an example of hostile or defensive design. Some of the benches are city-wide and some are district specific. A potential resolution targeting district-specific nontransit benches could be issued at the Feb. 5 North Westwood Neighborhood Council meeting. (Keaton Larson/Daily Bruin)
UCLA’s Bruin Reception Room in Ackerman Union will serve as a voter center for the 2020 primary and general elections. The center will be open for 11 days from Feb. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students will be able to vote in the Bruin Reception Room for both the 2020 primary and general elections. The voter center will be open from Feb. 22 to March 3 for the primary election, and will allow for casting ballots, same-day voter registration and mail-in ballot drop off. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)
The University of California Board of Regents will no longer vote on increasing tuition at its meeting Wednesday. The Board of Regents was set to vote on a tuition increase at its January meeting in response to California Gov. Read more...
Photo: The University of California Board of Regents was initially planning to vote on a tuition increase at its January meeting. However, the vote has been postponed to a later date following student opposition to the lack of advanced notice about the possible tuition hike. (Ashley Kenney/Daily Bruin)
Buddy Al-Aydi, a second-year English student, threw his backpack to the side of the Bruin Walk stage and ran up to grab a metal baseball bat. Read more...
Photo: Students smashed bathroom scales with baseball bats as part of the Body Image Task Force’s “I Love My Body Week.” The scale-smashing event was co-hosted by Southern Smash, a group that travels to college campuses across California to foster self-worth by inviting students to smash scales. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)
The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks commissioners unanimously approved a plan Thursday for a new synthetic turf field in Westwood Park. Tommy’s Field, named after Tommy Mark, a local youth soccer player who died in 2018, will replace the open grass area in the park without removing any adjacent tennis courts. Read more...
Photo: The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks commission voted to approve a plan for a synthetic turf field at Westwood Park on Thursday. The move ended a long-running community debate about how and in what way such a field should be built. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
