Lead custodian Alicia Munoz had an unusual problem. One day, a custodian on her team refused to complete a task, too scared of moving the cadavers in the basement of the Center for Health Sciences building. Read more...
Photo: Uniforms worn by members of the UCLA facilities management team are pictured. Members of the team work to ensure that campus buildings are tidy and sanitized. (Anna Dai-Liu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Jan. 16 at 12:41 p.m. Documents received by the Daily Bruin revealed the details behind the planning of a recent rally hosted by Bruins for Israel. Read more...
Photo: The Hillel at UCLA building is pictured. Hillel is a campus organization that organizes and funds events aimed for Jewish students. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA expressed discontent regarding recent difficulties communicating with administration officials and planning events. Mohammad, a spokesperson for SJP at UCLA who has been granted partial anonymity for safety reasons, said he does not feel that his organization has been treated fairly by UCLA’s Student Organizations, Leadership and Engagement office. Read more...
Photo: Murphy Hall is pictured. Student organizers from Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA expressed discontent about their recent communication with campus administrators. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Laura Gonzalez felt her heart sink as she waited for her team’s rocket to deploy a parachute during last year’s NASA First Nations Launch competition. The parachute never appeared. Read more...
Photo: Members of the UCLA Bearospace rocket team are pictured holding a rocket they built. The team participates every year in the NASA First Nations Launch competition. (Courtesy of Fabian Del Villar)
The first time Richard Wong stood in front of a lecture hall of hundreds of students, it felt like a performance. “It was kind of scary to be like, ‘Here’s a class of 210 students. Read more...
Photo: A large lecture hall with students is pictured. Professors teaching Mathematics 32A, a lower-division course with hundreds of students, discussed some of the challenges they have faced and rewards they have found through teaching the class. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Jan. 9 at 9:41 p.m. Second-year art student Youngjae Choi always knew he wanted to fly. Coming from a family of fighter pilots in South Korea, Choi faced barriers in joining the United States Air Force Academy. Read more...
Photo: Pictured are cadets participating in training exercises as part of the Air Force ROTC. Cadets in the Air Force ROTC learn about aerospace science and participate in physical training activities. (Courtesy of Dennis Melka)
Sixty-two years after Gonzalo Freixes fled Cuba with his family, UCLA finally gave him a chance to return. When arriving to host a global immersion course in the country, Freixes, an associate dean and adjunct professor of accounting in the UCLA Anderson School of Management, said he had a nostalgic return to his native country, which he realized had developed little since his departure. Read more...
Photo: Pictured are students participating in the immersion course in Cuba. The course, which was hosted by Anderson School of Management Associate Dean Gonzalo Freixes, aimed to teach students about the opening of private industry in the country. (Courtesy of Lucy Allard)
