The undergraduate student government added a referendum on Sept. 23 to its fall special election ballot to indefinitely extend mandatory students fees for the Green Initiative Fund. Read more...
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October 2, 2:05 am
Green Initiative Fund referendum added to special election ballot
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October 2, 2:01 am
Students recognize veterans’ services through Volunteer Day
UCLA students crowded into hallways with chipping taupe paint and a vegetable garden overrun with leaves and branches at a transitional veteran center Monday. In three separate groups, about 100 UCLA students raked and painted hallways on two floors of a building in the Veterans Succeeding in the 21st Century center, as part of the sixth annual UCLA Volunteer Day. Read more...
Photo: Ali Aziz, a first-year physiological sciences student, paints the hallways of a veteran center as part of UCLA Volunteer Day (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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September 29, 12:51 pm
Meeting to collect student input on diversity vice chancellor position
Students who want to weigh in on the appointment of a new diversity-related vice chancellor can meet with the position’s search committee on campus next week, officials announced in an email to students Monday. Read more...
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September 28, 12:00 am
USAC launches ‘All of Us’ mental health awareness campaign
Devin Murphy felt his self-awareness and self-worth deteriorate at the end of his second year at UCLA. After losing in the undergraduate student election for the position of a general representative in May 2013, facing hostility from extended family members for being gay and wondering if he would be able to afford to live in Westwood, he turned from his friends and family. Read more...
Photo: (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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September 28, 12:00 am
Persistence proves instrumental to sixth-year Bruin’s success
While his peers go out to get lunch, Noel Medrano goes to the practice room every break between classes to improve his playing technique. This persistence to perfect his music has made Medrano a meticulous band director, a job he takes on during the summer at his old high school, John H. Read more...
Photo: Noel Medrano applied to UCLA three times with the goal to be a high school band director. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)
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September 28, 12:00 am
The Facing Project voices Bruins’ struggles to access higher education
Students who have struggled to access higher education will have an opportunity to share their stories with the campus community starting first week, as part of a year-long project of the undergraduate student government. Read more...
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September 28, 12:00 am
Pro-Israel group claims bias in UCLA department
A Jewish advocacy group based in California is alleging that some UCLA professors and a research center operate with an anti-Israel, and possibly anti-Semitic, bias. Professors named by the group, however, say the group is conflating the criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. Read more...