UCLA Housing has taken a digital approach to showcasing campus life by posting dorm tours on Snapchat. To answer the overwhelming amount of questions UCLA Housing receives daily, the Office of Residential Life decided to have student staff post dorm tours on Snapchat, said Sara Miller, UCLA Residential Life media supervisor. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Housing has been posting dorm tours on Snapchat to engage incoming freshmen. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Graduate students will be able to examine video evidence from body worn cameras in a new course this fall. The UCLA Department of Information Studies’ four-unit seminar, “Special Topics in Information Studies: Archival Practice in the Age of Ubiquitous Surveillance Technologies,” will review policies about audiovisual material and provide training for students pursuing careers in film management, said Jean-François Blanchette, an associate professor in the Department of Information Studies. Read more...
Photo: The four-unit seminar “Management of Digital Records” offered this fall will allow UCLA graduate students to examine video evidence from body worn cameras. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
When Leonard Kleinrock’s student sent the first internet message from UCLA to Stanford, he said it felt more like a perfunctory job well done rather than a moment that would go down in history. Read more...
Photo: “Lo and Behold,” a documentary about the internet’s impact directed by Werner Herzog released Aug. 19, and features Leonard Kleinrock, a UCLA computer science professor. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
A Bruin Cafe student employee is demanding that UCLA pay students and full-time workers in UCLA dining services equal wages. Dana Carrera, a rising third-year sociology student, started a petition last Friday that calls for UCLA Dining Services to pay its student workers $16.32 an hour, which is the starting wage for full-time employees. Read more...
Photo: Dana Carrera, a rising third-year sociology student, started a petition demanding that UCLA pay students and full-time workers in UCLA Dining Services equal wages. (Catherine Liberty Feliciano/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Anywhere he goes, Pavlov the corgi gets stopped on the streets by fans from as far away as Berkeley. “A girl from UC Berkeley saw him on the street and freaked out,” said Anthony Osuna, Pavlov’s owner. Read more...
Photo: Pavlov, the Instagram-famous corgi, rose to fame after UCLA alumni, Anthony Osuna and his girlfriend Elayne-Tram Nguyen, started an Instagram account featuring the corgi’s adventures at UCLA. (Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)
UCLA hospitals in Westwood and Santa Monica ranked fifth in the nation and first in California for best hospitals, according to rankings released Monday by U.S. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Medical Center, which includes hospitals in Westwood and Santa Monica, ranked fifth in the nation and first in the state in new rankings from the U.S. News and World Report. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Rosie Chavez has lived most of her life in the foster system moving to different schools, homes and families, sometimes spending only a couple weeks in one place. Read more...
Photo: The Bruin Guardian Scholar Academy and First Star charity held the closing ceremony for their summer college readiness and mentorship program on July 30. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
