A war waging thousands of miles away forced Julie Avetisyan’s parents to flee their home in Baku, Azerbaijan, when they were 17 years old. Avetisyan, now a first-year fine arts student and member of the Armenian Students’ Association, said her family was uprooted from their home during the Artsakh Liberation War, fought in the 1980s to the 1990s. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Natalie Kalbakian)
This post was updated on Nov. 20 at 5:50 p.m. The UCLA Academic Senate’s Legislative Assembly approved a diversity-related course requirement for the College of Letters and Science with a 85-18 vote Thursday afternoon. Read more...
This post was updated on Nov. 20 at 9:54 p.m. UCLA officials canceled the bonfire portion of the Beat ‘SC Bonfire and Rally Thursday night as about 50 students marched in circles around the bonfire site to protest potential tuition hikes. Read more...
Photo: About 50 student protesters cancelled Thursday’s traditional Beat ‘SC bonfire, which between 4,000 and 5,000 students attended. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)
The Sikh Student Association will host its seventh cultural night on Friday, along with its first-ever bone marrow drive at the event. “The cultural night will be a place and time that brings students from other colleges together,” said Harinder Sran, a third-year psychology student and social director of the Sikh Student Association. Read more...
After struggling to adjust to her new college life last fall, Elizabeth Manzanero found a place to call home. She said her friends at the Queer Academy, a student group under the Queer Alliance organization, provided her with advice and guidance to get the help she needed. Read more...
Applications for the undergraduate student government internal vice president seat are available online until Friday and are open to all students. The position opened up last week after former Undergraduate Students Association Council Internal Vice President Avinoam Baral assumed the USAC presidency. Read more...
A University of California Regents committee voted 7-2 to approve a plan to increase tuition by up to 5 percent annually for the next five years depending on state funding, as hundreds of students rallied outside its meeting Wednesday and protested the plan. Read more...
Photo: More than 300 University of California students came to the UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday at UC San Francisco to protest a plan that could raise tuition for each of the next five years. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
