The UCLA community expressed concern after the Asian American Studies Center received a flyer declaring that a white supremacist rally would be held on campus on Feb. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students and faculty expressed concerns about the university’s response after the Asian American studies department received a flyer regarding a white supremacist rally that was meant to occur Feb. 14. (Ashley Kenney/Photo editor)
Disability rights advocate Judith Heumann spoke about the need to increase the accessibility of higher education in a Zoom lecture Thursday. Heumann has been advocating for disability rights since the 1970s and has worked on legislation including Section 504, the Individuals with Education Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, according to a UCLA press release. Read more...
Photo: Disability rights advocate Judith Heumann spoke with student leaders and at the Regents’ Professors and Lecturers Program to discuss the accessibility of higher education. (Screen capture by Sakshi Joglekar/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated March 1 at 6:51 p.m. Students’ 16-day sit-in is now over. Student leaders decided Wednesday morning to suspend their 16-day sit-in at Murphy Hall after reaching an agreement with UCLA administrators regarding their demands for increased accessibility and education equity. Read more...
Photo: After coming to an agreement with the university, student leaders suspended their sit-in at Murphy Hall. (Seth Van Matre/Daily Bruin)
Students said the new Daily Symptom Monitoring Survey is helpful for COVID-19 safety but should be shortened for more convenience and to increase compliance. UCLA created the Daily Symptom Monitoring Survey in June 2020 to improve campus safety by asking students, faculty and staff whether or not they are exhibiting any symptoms of COVID-19. Read more...
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Faculty of color in the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences said they experienced and observed racial discrimination in various instances, including being passed over for promotions, ignored in decision-making and discouraged in efforts to hire more faculty of color. Read more...
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UCPD recorded 509 unique entries in its January daily crime log. Sources: UCPD. Graphic reporting by Justin Jung, city and crime editor. Interactive by Laurel Woods, Data editor. Read more...
Faculty and student leaders expressed optimism after UCLA announced that students can drop classes until week nine without fee or transcript notation. The new policy in place for the winter quarter allows students to drop both impacted and nonimpacted classes much later into the quarter than previously allowed. Read more...
Photo: UCLA is allowing students to drop impacted classes through week nine without fee or transcript notation to accommodate for unforeseen circumstances. (Jeremy Chen/Daily Bruin staff)
