Only a year since its launch, UCLA’s Grand Challenges initiative is already behind schedule. Under the theme of “Thriving in a Hotter Los Angeles,” UCLA announced the plan in November 2013 in hopes of achieving 100 percent sustainability in Los Angeles by 2050. Read more...
Photo: Victoria Chang/Daily Bruin senior staff
An hour and a half later, my head was spinning. I had just attended an information-packed orientation for the UCLA Center for American Politics and Public Policy’s Quarter in Washington program. Read more...
The only thing that didn’t go up in flames at the annual Beat ‘SC Bonfire and Rally was the pile of wood in the middle of Wilson Plaza. Read more...
Photo: A group of undergraduate and graduate students occupied the unlit bonfire at the Beat ‘SC Bonfire and Rally Thursday in protest of the UC Regents’ recent decision to increase tuition by up to five percent over each of the next five years. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Last week, the University of California Board of Regents approved a tuition hike plan that would ensure stable and predictable tuition increases of up to 5 percent over the next five years. Read more...
Photo: Gov. Jerry Brown speaks at the UC Regents meeting at the UCSF campus. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
Tuesday’s student council meeting was about as divisive and damaging as we all knew it would be. But some of the damage didn’t come from the expected places. Read more...
Photo: USAC councilmembers questioned the legitimacy of former USAC Internal Vice President Avinoam Baral’s rise to the presidency during Tuesday’s council meeting, where they passed the divestment resolution. (Joseph Chan/Daily Bruin)
Bright orange stickers and people with clipboards serve as a warning sign for UCLA students to steer clear – unless they want to be pressured into pledging California Public Interest Research Group. Read more...
Photo: CALPIRG Students, a branch of California Public Interest Research Group, holds pledge drives at UCLA and other UC campuses every year to gather funds for their initiatives regarding public interest issues. (Daily Bruin file photo)
There’s a tendency to measure student protests by their sheer size and volume. The more noise the students make, the more successful a demonstration appears. But our college campuses may now be taking the more peaceful route. Read more...
