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Campus, News
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September 28, 12:00 am
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, UCLA alumnus Tony Auth dies at 72
Tony Auth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and former Daily Bruin staff member, died Sept. 14 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after undergoing treatment for metastatic brain cancer. Read more...
Photo: Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Tony Auth started working at the Daily Bruin at UCLA before going on to become a professional cartoonist at The Philadelphia Inquirer. His cartoons were known for the emotions they drew from readers and for their ability to boil complex issues down to single images. (Daily Bruin archives)
Campus, News, Student Government
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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)
Campus, News
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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)
Campus, News
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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...
Campus, News
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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...
Campus, News
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September 28, 12:00 am
Mentor seeks education reform to benefit underserved youth
Throughout his life, Sidney Thompson has seen students turn to gang violence because they were not given the tools to succeed by their educators. Thompson now has two goals: to recruit teachers to a UCLA graduate program specializing in underserved youth and to rewrite the way algebra is taught in schools – both to give all students a fair shot at academic success. Read more...
Photo: Sid Thompson, 83, is a volunteer mentor for the UCLA Principal Leadership Institute. The institute trains teachers in urban areas to become administrators. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin senior staff)