Taking a sick day was never an option for Ana Mascareñas’ mother, who had to upkeep her job as a high school counselor to support four children. Read more...
Photo: Sean Buono, Lauren Harrell, Jesse Damon and Ana Mascareñas train for the ASICS L.A. Marathon Charity Relay. (Courtesy of Shweta Saraswat/UCLA Fielding School of Public Health)
An image of a black student with a graduation cap with “stop killing us” written across it stuck in Jessica Barragan’s mind on Wednesday. Before seeing the image at a panel on race relations in the United States, the third-year sociology student said she had never thought about race relations and police brutality in such finite terms. Read more...
Photo: A panel of UCLA professors discussed race and social inequality issues with students Wednesday. (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
Kelton Avenue is empty and quiet at 8 a.m. on a Friday morning. But in Westwood, this is one of the busiest times for city parking enforcement. Read more...
Photo: A truck makes its way through North Village as street sweeping continues, causing many students to either move their cars or face parking violations. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
The JazzReggae Festival’s loss of $120,844 last year was the largest in the past decade because of declining ticket revenues and mounting facility costs. About $113,000 of the deficit was paid for with money from the Undergraduate Students Association Council 2013-2014 surplus, which councilmembers allocated Tuesday night. Read more...
UCLA will receive $7,500 from the University of California Office of the President for a new sustainability fellowship and internship program announced Wednesday. The program will award $7,500 to each UC campus, as well as the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read more...
A state bar commission recently awarded a grant to the UCLA School of Law and two other law schools to help new lawyers launch and develop firms to help clients who are unable to afford high-priced attorneys. Read more...
The undergraduate student government unanimously voted Tuesday night to invest $10,000 of its surplus funds into its endowment and to change the formula by which surplus funding is distributed across funds that support student group programming. Read more...
Photo: USAC members voted on how to spend this year’s surplus in a meeting Tuesday night. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
