Wednesday, August 5

USAC to vote on extending Green Initiative Fund student fee

The undergraduate student government will vote Tuesday whether to indefinitely extend a per-quarter $4 student fee that funds environmental sustainability projects. In 2008, the student body voted to institute the fee. Read more...

Photo: Undergraduate student government funding through the Green Initiative Fund is often used for sustainability projects such as the solar panels installed on the roof of Ackerman Union. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Rendezvous opens for weekends on Hill in place of Feast

Students can now feast at Rendezvous on weekends, but can no longer rendezvous at Feast. UCLA residential restaurant Rendezvous, which offers to-go Mexican and Asian entrees, is now open Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. Read more...

Photo: Students stand in line outside UCLA residential restaurant Rendezvous, which is now open on weekends from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)






Professor studies impact of Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia

Patrick Heuveline sat among villagers in Cambodia, showing them photos of his daughter to establish common ground with a group of people whose culture he had yet to fully understand. Read more...

Photo: Sociology profesor Patrick Heuveline has spent about 15 years studying the effects of the Khmer Rouge regime’s mass murder during the late 1970s in Cambodia. When he was 29, Heuveline adopted his daughter from an orphanage in Phnom Penh, where he worked at the time. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)