Sunday, May 17

Q&A: Incoming UCSA president discusses plans for upcoming year

With the new academic year arriving, the Daily Bruin sat down with Jefferson Kuoch-Seng, the incoming president of the University of California Student Association, to hear more about the association’s plan for the year. Read more...

Photo: Jefferson Kuoch-Seng, a fourth-year management student from UC Merced, is the University of California Student Association president for the 2014-2015 year. (Courtesy of Jefferson Kuoch-Seng)


Alumnus Derek Bolin preserves UCLA tapes, brings back historical voices

The still-frame photos of the speakers from the 1960s and 1970s remain fixed on the screen, but in the background, their grainy yet commanding voices demand equality, demean politicians and prompt audiences of UCLA students to laugh and cry. Read more...

Photo: Derek Bolin, a UCLA alumnus, has worked over the past year to preserve hundreds of recordings of speeches given at UCLA in the 1960s and 1970s. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin senior staff)


UCLA grad students’ website ApplyMap helps with college admissions

A new website launched by UCLA graduate students aims to help high schoolers navigate the college application process by sifting through university options and presenting students with the best matches for them. Read more...

Photo: UCLA political science and statistics graduate student Dan Lim and political science graduate student Steve Palley recently launched a website to make the college admissions process easier for high schoolers. (Courtesy of Steve Palley)





UCLA facilities employee claims UCPD used racial profiling in arrest

This post was updated on Sept. 3 at 11:55 p.m. A black UCLA facilities employee is claiming a university police officer violated his civil rights and racially profiled him while arresting him after a traffic violation in Westwood last week. Read more...

Photo: Claudius E. Gaines III, a 45-year-old probationary employee at UCLA Facilities Management, is claiming a UCPD officer violated his civil rights and racially profiled him while arresting him after a traffic violation. (Courtesy of Carl Douglas)