For first-generation college student Oscar Gaytan, community college was an affordable way to figure out what he was interested in and whether college was something he wanted to pursue. Read more...
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News, Westwood
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October 20, 4:00 pm
Westwood Village Improvement Association recap – Oct. 20
The Westwood Village Improvement Association is a nonprofit organization tasked with improving the state of Westwood Village. Property and business owners created the association in 2011 to provide the Village with functions the city of Los Angeles could not provide. Read more...
Campus, News
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October 20, 1:33 am
Vending machine with safe sex, health products installed in Ackerman
Students will now be able to access a vending machine on campus that provides birth control products, condoms and school supplies. Associated Students UCLA and the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center partnered with UCLA Vending Services to install the vending machine in Ackerman A-Level on Thursday. Read more...
Photo: A new vending machine that sells condoms, Plan B pills and school supplies was installed at Ackerman A-level on Thursday. (Kathy Zhou/Daily Bruin)
News, UC
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October 20, 1:32 am
Bill ensures nonresident students held to higher academic qualifications
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law last week that modified the state’s education code to ensure that out-of-state undergraduate students accepted to the University of California have greater academic qualifications than in-state undergraduate students. Read more...
Photo: Last week, Gov. Brown signed a bill into law requiring out-of-state undergraduate students to have greater academic qualifications than in-state undergraduate students in order to be admitted. (Daily Bruin file photo)
A Closer Look, Campus, News
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October 20, 1:31 am
Alumni develop app for college students to manage their finances
Tim Yu and Susie Kim spent $70 to buy tickets to a nightclub party hosted by Kim Kardashian in Las Vegas. They ended up arriving late and missing the party. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Tim Yu)
News, Science & Health
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October 20, 1:30 am
Campus Queries: Why have this year’s California wildfires been so destructive?
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: Why have this year’s wildfires across California been more destructive in loss of property and human life compared with other years? Read more...
Photo: (Pauline Ordonez/Daily Bruin) Photo credit: Pauline Ordonez
A Closer Look, News, Westwood
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October 20, 1:27 am
Panelists discuss potential Westwood improvements at UCLA event
Los Angeles experts and city officials said students should continue advocating for Westwood issues at a panel Thursday evening. The undergraduate student government office of the external vice president, the Graduate Students Association and Abundant Housing LA, a group that advocates for more housing, held “How Westwood got trapped in time (and what to do about it)” at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Read more...
Photo: Donald Shoup, a distinguished research professor of urban planning, said Westwood could benefit from the policies of other cities, like looser parking restrictions for new businesses. (Jacob Preal/Daily Bruin)