A Los Angeles-based philanthropist recently donated $10 million to launch a new center at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Jeff Skoll, founder and chairman of Participant Media and former president of eBay, gave $10 million to create the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment. Read more...
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November 13, 12:51 am
Philanthropist gifts $10 million for new center at TFT
Campus, Crime, News
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November 12, 1:48 pm
UCPD arrests former UCLA student for YRL laptop theft
Police arrested a UCLA alumnus Tuesday in connection with the weekend theft of more than 50 MacBook laptops from the Charles E. Young Research Library. Read more...
Photo: UCPD retrieved 53 laptops late Tuesday from Seyed Hesari’s Hollywood home. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
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November 12, 1:38 am
Student brings back stories from relief mission in typhoon-struck Philippines
One of Alana Sanchez-Prak’s larger host families during her trip to the Philippines relied on coconut trees as its primary source of income. The mother of the family remembered watching the roof fly off her home and seeing the trees collapse while trying to get her family to safety. Read more...
Photo: Undeclared second-year Alana Sanchez-Prak gives lecture about a typhoon aid relief project that she worked on in the Philippines. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
Campus, News, Student Government
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November 12, 1:17 am
SJP members address divestment resolution at town hall meeting
#attachment_202260 { margin:5px; } About 100 students met in a Haines Hall classroom Monday to fine-tune the language of a divestment resolution the undergraduate student government will vote on next week. Read more...
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November 12, 12:55 am
GSA forum to fill vice president of internal affairs seat
The graduate student government is holding a special election on Wednesday to fill its vice president of internal affairs seat, after former student government officer Hope McCoy resigned in September. Read more...
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November 10, 1:41 pm
Man steals 55 MacBook laptops from YRL
University police are searching for a man wanted for stealing 55 MacBook Pro laptops from the Charles E. Young Research Library early Saturday morning. The laptops were stolen from an equipment loan room on the ground floor that is part of the Campus Library Instructional Computing Commons, police said. Read more...
Photo: University police say a man entered the Charles E. Young Research Library early Saturday morning and stole 55 MacBook Pro laptops. (UCPD)
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November 10, 1:51 am
Students volunteer to combat homelessness on Day of Service
Homelessness has long been an important issue to Anais Munoz, who remembers learning that even her classmates in elementary school had to deal with homelessness. Some of them didn’t have access to indoor plumbing and had to do their homework under streetlights. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Kathleen Yap)