This post was updated June 18 at 4:13 p.m. Four UCLA employees are accusing their former supervisor of workplace sexual harassment, according to lawsuits filed Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: Four former UCLA employees filed lawsuits against the UCLA and UC Board of Regents this week, alleging the university did not act appropriately to previous complaints. (Daily Bruin file photo)
One of the highlights of Lt. Col. Shannon Stambersky’s career was when she saw cadets step outside of their comfort zones and embrace their host country’s culture during a three-week summer training program in Indonesia. Read more...
Photo: Lt. Col. Shannon Stambersky will be leaving the UCLA Army ROTC program to work at the Pentagon. (Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Two longtime faculty members from the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology are retiring this month. Professors Elizabeth Carter and Robert Englund will be retiring after multiple decades of teaching at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Robert Englund (back row, third from the left) poses at a British excavation site of a mound called Jemdet Nasr in 1998. (Courtesy of Robert Englund)
David Sears said he once flirted with former President Barack Obama during a photo opportunity. “He said, ‘Where do you teach?’ and I said UCLA, and he said, ‘Oh, my wife was just there last spring and she said it was such a beautiful campus,’” Sears said. Read more...
Photo: David Sears, a distinguished professor in the department of psychology, is retiring after almost 60 years of teaching at UCLA. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA has had nearly a century of student activism, and this year is no exception. Here is an overview of demonstrations that happened this year, how their respective movements have progressed and where people think the movements are going. Read more...
Photo: AFSCME Local 3299, the UC service workers’ union, held a three-day strike in May after negotiations with the University of California stalled. (Jenna Nicole Smith/Daily Bruin)
Chloe Vaught and her mother Sylvie Vaught screamed and jumped around the house when they learned they would be attending UCLA at the same time. When Sylvie Vaught finished her undergraduate degree in 2016, her daughter, Chloe Vaught, was admitted to UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Sylvie Vaught is graduating UCLA in June with a master’s in cinema and media studies, while her daughter Chloe Vaught attends UCLA’s undergraduate program. (Courtesy of Sylvie Vaught)
Eduardo Perez clearly remembers Sept. 5, the day President Donald Trump announced his decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. But Perez, a first-year political science student and DACA recipient, also remembers the email UCLA, the school he was going to attend that fall, sent out in response. Read more...
