Students dipped their hands into paint and pressed onto a white wooden board, creating an array of rainbow-colored handprints. The “Solidarity Wall,” aimed to draw attention to the UCLA Students for Haiti Solidarity, a club founded in 2015, and its efforts to help victims of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Students for Haiti Solidarity is raising money with a grassroots organization for those in Haiti affected by Hurricane Matthew. (Courtesy of SOPUDEP)
UCLA officials finished constructing the first outdoor study space between Powell Library and the Humanities Building early last week. The Office of Instructional Development and UCLA Facilities Management collaborated to install several study benches with power outlets in the space during spring quarter, and completed the project this fall. Read more...
Photo: UCLA officials constructed the first outdoor study space with benches and power outlets between Powell Library and the Humanities Building early last week. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
Zehra Abbas spent her second year at UCLA hiding her belly after she found out she was pregnant. “I hid my pregnancy with jackets because I was under the impression that there was something wrong with me,” Abbas said. Read more...
Photo: Zehra Abbas, a fifth-year history student, struggled with pregnancy during her second year. She is now looking forward to graduating this year and creating a better future for her two-year-old child. (Burcu Turkay/Daily Bruin)
Students came up with solutions to solve the Syrian refugee crisis in a competition over the last two weeks. The United Nations Association at UCLA asked students to come up with solutions to the Syrian refugee crisis in its first-ever GenUN Case Competition. Read more...
Photo: Lucy Xiao, first-year political science student, Kimberly Keen, fourth-year political science student, and Kathleen Tedi, third-year political science student presented their solutions for the Syrian refugee crisis as part of a competition put on by the United Nations Association at UCLA. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Marianne Simpson spent the summer after her first year of college digging hundreds of relics and bones out of the ruins of an ancient Greek city. Read more...
Photo: Jamie Aprile, UCLA doctoral alumnus and field school director for Methone, and fourth-year UCLA Theatre and Ancient Greek student Christopher Sanders work together on a sift, separating out dirt and picking out special finds to be bagged. Wheel barrels of dirt are taken from trenches over to a series of sifts where smaller, but equally important material is found and bagged for study. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The city plans to open a dog park at a Westwood recreation center near Santa Monica Boulevard. The dog park will replace playground equipment near Veteran Avenue at the Westwood Recreation Center, said Jasmine Shamolian, a field deputy for Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles city officials announced they would close the dog park at Barrington park and open another one at the Westwood Recreation Center. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
