Plinio Garcia and Andrew Ruesch were inspired to create their own line of children’s toys when their son, Luke, came home from kindergarten one day with a stuffed animal he designed himself. Read more...
Photo: Two UCLA alumni created Indy Plush, a business that designs and creates plush stuffed animals, and donates a portion of the profit to wildlife advocacy groups. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
UCLA staff and faculty members who are military veterans will be able to receive walk-in counseling under a pilot program the Staff and Faculty Counseling Center launched early February. Read more...
Rated as the No. 2 university for food and dining by Cappex, UCLA has invested great time and effort to fill up empty bellies. In fact, several UCLA students think regular meal times are just not enough and often proceed to smuggle large food quantities such as three bananas, five cookies and even pieces of chicken out of the dining halls. Read more...
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The Daily Bruin won the California College Media Association’s award for the state’s best daily college newspaper Saturday. The award, which The Bruin won for the third straight year, was among the 12 first-place awards The Bruin won at the association’s annual contest. Read more...
Photo: The Daily Bruin won first place for the 2016 California College Media Association award for best daily newspaper, in addition to 11 first-place awards and 24 awards in total. (Francesca Manto/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The UCLA Speech and Debate team met yesterday with Chinese students from different universities for a lively back-and-forth about whether the United States should accept Syrian refugees. Read more...
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Southern Lights, a coffee shop in the Court of Sciences Student Center, reopened Thursday after the store flooded in November. UCLA officials shut down the store when water that flooded the ground floor tested positive for sewage-related bacteria. Read more...
Photo: Southern Lights, a coffee shop in the Court of Sciences, reopened Thursday after shutting down due to flooding in November. (Efren Piñon/Daily Bruin)
Several undergraduate student government officers and Election Board officials met Wednesday to discuss bloc voting and other concerns about the student government election process. The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Constitutional Review Committee, which is in charge of proposing changes to USAC bylaws or the Election Code, convened to discuss possible solutions that aim to make the election process more fair. Read more...
Photo: Undergraduate Students Association Council Facilities Commissioner Ian Cocroft said at a meeting about the upcoming USAC election he thinks the order the candidates’ names appear on the ballot should be randomized. (Anthony Tran/Daily Bruin)
