UCLA now has several mobile applications to better reach students and faculty in the event of an emergency. Michael Beck, administrative vice chancellor, said in an email statement Monday students and faculty can download the Bruins Safe mobile app so they can better prepare themselves for emergency situations. Read more...
Photo: (Juliette Le Saint/Illustrations director)
The UCLA Graduate Student Association announced last week it will remain part of the University of California Student Association even though graduate student associations at other campuses voted to leave UCSA last month. Read more...
Photo: Last month, the UC Graduate-Professional Coalition voted to withdraw from UCSA. UCLA’s Graduate Student Association announced it will remain. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA’s undergraduate student government voted last week to reduce the amount student political groups can spend on election campaigns in order to make campaigning more fair. Read more...
Photo: The undergraduate student government amended the Election Code bylaw to make campaigning more fair for independent candidates. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Edwin Cifuentes, a contracted valet worker at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said many valet workers who are being transferred away from UCLA are worried their new jobs will not offer them the same wages or benefits UCLA provided. Read more...
Photo: Valet contract workers for ABM have protested UCLA’s in-sourcing alongside AFSCME at places including the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in July and at the inaugural UC public law conference in September. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
Photo: Members of Refuse Fascism Los Angeles burned a “Make America Great Again” hat, President Donald Trump’s campaign hat, in Bruin Plaza on Thursday at 11 a.m. and called for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to be driven out of office. Members also called for UCLA students to join a national protest against Trump’s administration Nov. 4. “Since when is it normal for two white supremacists to be in the White House?” said UCLA alumna Luna Gonzalez. “That’s what this hat represents.” (Chelsea Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Incoming first-year undergraduate students are increasingly concerned with the cost of their education, a national survey found. The Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshman Survey found 55.9 percent of incoming first-year students are at least somewhat concerned with the cost of their education and 13.3 percent have major concerns about financing their education. Read more...
Students grabbed cookies and condoms on their way into an event on sexual education Thursday. Lisa Ling, a CNN journalist, led a discussion on sexual education in U.S. Read more...
Photo: CNN journalist Lisa Ling moderated a panel on the state of sex education in the United States at an event at the Northwest Auditorium on the Hill Thursday. (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)
