A UCLA alumnus took his frustration at the lack of available parking spots near campus and developed it into a website. Ryusei Shimizu, who graduated in 2015, founded Poasis, a website that aims to connect people who have extra parking spaces to drivers who need parking. Read more...
Photo: (April Ding/Daily Bruin)
Students organizing UCLA’s fourth annual Consent Week will focus this year’s program on encouraging dialogue between administrators and students and providing safe spaces for sexual assault survivors. Read more...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at UCLA and Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity, hosted the third annual IDEA Hacks this weekend. IDEA Hacks is UCLA’s first 36-hour hardware hackathon held in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students spent 36 hours in Ackerman Grand Ballroom to create a product related to exercise and sports technology this weekend. The hackathon was free for all participants. (Tianyi Ruan/Daily Bruin)
Shawndeez Jadalizadeh embarked on a four-month solo journey through her home country, which she had never visted before, in the spring of 2015. “I was slightly terrified, but I put aside my fears and fantasies to enjoy the present, to enjoy Iran,” wrote Shawndeez, a graduate student in gender studies, in a memoir about her travels. Read more...
Photo: Shawndeez Jadalizadeh, a UCLA graduate student in gender studies, wrote a memoir about her travels through her hometown, called “My Iran: an Iranian-American experience back home.” (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
Students can bind loose-leaf textbooks and add custom designs to clothing at a new printing center that opened in Ackerman Union on Monday. Bruin Custom Print provides printing, loose-leaf course material binding and clothing embroidery on the A-level of Ackerman Union. Read more...
Photo: The Bruin Custom Print center opened for printing and bookbinding on Monday in Ackerman Union, replacing video game center Game On!. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin)
The number of students on the parking permit waitlist decreased from 813 in fall 2015 to 309 in fall 2016, despite a decrease in the number of spots reserved for students. Read more...
Student leaders from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at UCLA will attend the first LGBTQ leadership retreat this weekend. The LGBT Campus Resource Center and the LGBTQ Leadership Council collaborated to organize the retreat, which will aim to connect students with similar interests and experiences, and increase their confidence in leadership roles. Read more...
Photo: The LGBTQ retreat being held this weekend aims to provide LGBTQ students with social opportunities, leadership skills and more confidence in their abilities. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)
