Delanie Hamilton-William rarely sees any other black students when she ventures onto campus. “It makes me feel kind of displaced, like I don’t belong,” said Hamilton-William, a first-year biology student. Read more...
Photo: Members of the Nigerian Student Association performed at the eighth annual Black History Extravaganza Wednesday night. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
Nushin Arbabzadah didn’t know she was looking at dead bodies the first time she saw them. She and her 7-year-old classmates lined up in front of the classroom and stared as men carried teenage girls on stretchers to the hospital next door. Read more...
Photo: Nushin Arbabzadah, a communication studies lecturer, worked for three years at BBC Monitoring before beginning her career at the university. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Buses full of fourth-and-fifth-grade students from the local Boys and Girls Club made their way onto the UCLA campus on Tuesday. When the buses unloaded, a group of about 50 wide-eyed students filed out. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s chapter of Coaching Corps hosted fourth- and fifth-grade students from the Boys and Girls Club for a tour around the campus. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
The undergraduate student government unanimously approved mandatory spending caps of $850 for candidates running for executive offices and $750 for candidates running for any other office Tuesday. Read more...
Therese Todd thought her father was yelling an order for two-by-four planks on the phone with a client at his hardware company as she sat between her brothers in the back of the minivan on the way to Disney World. Read more...
Photo: Therese Todd started a series of talks at her sorority to educate her sisters on mental health issues facing college students such as binge drinking and addiction, anxiety and depression. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA alumnus and political commentator is giving a lecture on conservative political thought Wednesday. Ben Shapiro, who graduated from UCLA in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in political science, is an author and the founder and editor-in-chief of TruthRevolt, a conservative media group. Read more...
This article was updated at 1:25 a.m. on Feb 25. Chancellor Gene Block sent a campuswide email Tuesday criticizing the recent posting of offensive fliers about Students for Justice in Palestine and the questioning of a student’s qualifications based on her Jewish identity. Read more...
