Sy Stokes, the creator of the viral YouTube video “The Black Bruins [Spoken Word]” who graduated from UCLA in 2015, was among those at a summit of black students, educators and community activists who shared their struggles to attain quality education. Read more...
Photo: The Summit on Educational Excellence for African Americans was held Friday as part of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The University of California Student Association discussed a proposal to add another nonvoting student representative to the UC Board of Regents Saturday. Avi Oved, the student regent-designate, proposed the position. Read more...
About 200 children and student volunteers at a UCLA nonprofit summer camp moved Saturday to a campsite in Wrightwood for the second session of the program as the San Bernardino fires that forced them to evacuate from their original site continued to spread. Read more...
Photo: UniCamp, a nonprofit summer camp, was forced to relocate again after the San Bernardino fires that forced it to evacuate from its original site in Barton Flats continued to spread. (Courtesy of Michael Starr)
UCLA’s incoming Fleet and Transit Services director collected city maps as a kid because he found streets fascinating. Clinton Bench said he thinks street planning, which is constrained by urban development, must be creative to get people from place to place in the fastest way possible, and Los Angeles’ history is most intriguing to look at. Read more...
UCLA has undertaken several water conservation projects since 2013 because of the California drought and Gov. Jerry Brown’s emergency water restrictions, including replacing the Intramural Field’s grass with artificial turf. Read more...
A woman from Newport Beach filed a lawsuit Friday against a health care device-maker whose scopes were tied to an outbreak of a superbug at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in February. Read more...
