This post was updated March 2 at 6:30 p.m. A University of California, Irvine, professor and former dean who sexually harassed employees continued earning more than $200,000 a year after Title IX investigations found him responsible in 2014. Read more...
Photo: (University of California, Irvine Graduate Division)
Jerry’s Famous Deli, a black building with a wide awning, has stood empty on Weyburn Avenue since 2013. When its original owner died, a Japanese management company bought the building and tried to renovate it, but abandoned the project halfway, said Steve Sann, chair of the Westwood Community Council. Read more...
Photo: The space Jerry’s Famous Deli used to occupy has remained vacant for several years. (Photo illustration by Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin and Harish Balasubramani/Illustrations director)
Companies with financial ties to a $1.2 billion development project in South Los Angeles contributed to a political action committee supporting the re-election campaign of Westwood’s city council member. Read more...
Photo: Paul Koretz, incumbent Los Angeles City Council Member, voted to approve a residential development whose backers have ties to a PAC which sent out campaign mailers supporting him. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Democratic student groups on campus said they hope the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee will work to unify the party to win back power in the government. Read more...
Photo: Tom Perez, former Secretary of Labor under President Barack Obama, was elected the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee last week. (Creative commons photo by Tiffany L. Koebel via Wikimedia Commons)
UCLA will help expand a middle school in South Los Angeles under an agreement signed with the Los Angeles Unified School District last month. The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies will partner with Horace Mann Middle School to add grade levels nine through 12, develop a revised curriculum and improve after-school programs, UCLA officials said in a press release. Read more...
Photo: Principal Orlando Johnson, center, said he has already seen improvements in student performance since UCLA partnered with Horace Mann Middle School in 2014. (UCLA Newsroom)
After getting into a fight with her father at 1 a.m., Kayla He went to her room and ate as many chicken fingers and pizza slices as she could. Read more...
Photo: Kayla He, a first-year pre-communication studies student, will speak about her experiences with a past eating disorder at an event Thursday for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. She said she hopes to see changes in the way people talk about eating disorders. (Andrew Arifin/Daily Bruin)
UCLA had 25 cases of faculty, staff and employees who sexually harassed university community members between 2013 and 2016, the second-highest number among the 10 UC campuses, according to documents released by University of California campuses Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: About 35 percent of complainants in the 113 sexual harassment case reports released by individual University of California campuses Tuesday were students. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
