UCLA Dining Services officials closed Bruin Plate, Feast at Rieber, Hedrick Test Kitchen and Cafe 1919 Wednesday because of anticipated low staffing levels resulting from a union strike. Read more...
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November 20, 1:17 am
Union strikes may affect UCLA classes, health services
Discussion sections for some classes and certain patient services at UCLA’s hospitals will be cancelled or limited today because of strikes by two major unions. Up to about 3,800 unionized employees may not show up for their work shifts today at UCLA’s hospitals and patient care facilities. Read more...
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November 20, 1:04 am
Bruin Origami Society co-founders teach UCLA students art
The slow, stretched jazz notes of Miles Davis’ “Blue in Green” harmonized with the rhythm of focused fingers smoothing little, bright blue squares of paper. The last of the students settled into their desks, ready to get to work on their origami – the chalkboard was already covered in a disarray of diagrams. Read more...
Photo: Harsh Karthik, a second-year applied mathematics student, showed members of the Bruin Origami Society how to create origami art at one of the club’s Monday night meetings.
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November 20, 1:01 am
USAC Recap – Nov. 19
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Read more...
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November 20, 12:00 am
Students defend professor after sit-in over racial climate
Current and former students in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies expressed their support for professor emeritus Val Rust following a demonstration in one of his graduate classes last Thursday. Read more...
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November 19, 12:54 am
Professor teaches about the Baha’i Faith
As a young atheist, Nader Saiedi felt that his family’s religion contradicted his trust in reason. The current UCLA professor could not reconcile what he believed were inconsistencies between faith and reason until he began researching the Baha’i Faith – a religion the Iranian government considers heretical, Saiedi said. Read more...
Photo: Professor Nader Saiedi teaches about the Baha’i Faith, a minority religion that is becoming increasingly popular throughout the world.
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November 19, 12:53 am
Student groups struggle with funding application process
An inefficient application process has prevented some student groups from obtaining money from a fund designed to support them. This fall, hundreds of student groups requested funding from the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Student Organizations Operational Fund, commonly known as SOOF – a resource for student group supplies, advertising and other operational costs. Read more...