This post was updated Dec. 9 at 6:40 p.m. UCLA resumed classes and campus activities Friday, following a fire that burned through Bel-Air on Wednesday and Thursday. Read more...
Photo: A fire burned in the Bel-Air area near the UCLA campus Wednesday and Thursday. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Assistant Photo editor)
Westwood Forward, an initiative to create a new neighborhood council in Westwood, held its second town hall Nov. 27. Some attendees voiced their concerns, while others lent their support and shared their visions for the future of Westwood. Read more...
A senior UCLA administrator will be leaving his position next year to take up a new job in an art and cultural organization. Steve Olsen, vice chancellor and chief financial officer, will be leaving UCLA on June 30, 2018 to join the J. Read more...
Photo: Steve Olsen, UCLA vice chancellor and chief financial officer, will be leaving in June to join the J. Paul Getty Trust. (courtesy of UCLA newsroom)
Students will be able to use Pauley Pavilion as a study space during finals week this quarter. The Pauley Pavilion concourse will provide tables, chairs and refreshments from Sunday through Thursday on finals week. Read more...
Photo: The Pauley Pavilion concourse will be open to students as a study space from Sunday night to Thursday of finals week. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A bill proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday aims to reform how the federal government oversees higher education. North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx introduced House Resolution 4508, which expands the Pell Grant, a federal financial aid program, to include shorter-term programs like apprenticeships. Read more...
Photo: A North Carolina congresswoman introduced a bill that would expand federal financial aid programs to encourage shorter-term programs and would cap the amount of loans a student can receive. (Daily Bruin file photo)
If students living on the Hill are caught taking out more than one piece of fruit or dessert from a dining hall, they could be banned from that dining hall for the rest of the academic year. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Dining Services and Residential Life may ban students from certain dining halls if they take extra food from those facilities. The current policy allows guests to take out one fruit, baked good or dessert. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA activists are calling on major fast food chains to improve the safety and sustainability of the meat they serve. Students at the UCLA chapter of the California Public Interest Research Group, an advocacy group, traveled to In-N-Out Burger’s Irvine headquarters Saturday to deliver 82 petitions calling on the fast food chain to reduce the use of antibiotics in its food. Read more...
Photo: Student members in the UCLA chapter of California Public Interest Research Group visited the In-N-Out Burger headquarters in Irvine on Sunday to present their petitions against the use of antibiotics in animals in the meat industry. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin senior staff)
