Monday, May 18

UCLA’s annual Bike Week offers pit stops for cyclists

UCLA Transportation’s annual Bike Week events will take place this week, in conjunction with Los Angeles Metro Transportation’s Bike Week and the UCLA Bicycle Coalition. From Tuesday to Thursday, UCLA Transportation will offer a pit stop at different locations around Westwood in the morning for cyclists to get bike tune-ups from the UCLA Bike Shop, food and other free items. Read more...


United Arab Society’s culture night aims to educate about conflicts

Growing up in Saudi Arabia, Jodutt Basrawi was not interested in learning about his Arab heritage. But after visiting family in Syria in 2011 – at the beginning a series of protests and revolutions in the Middle East called the Arab Spring – the second-year geology student became passionate his Arab identity. Read more...

Photo: Students from the LA Dabke Troupe performed Middle Eastern folk dance at the United Arab Society’s culture night on Friday. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)




IMHOME student volunteers offer support to the homeless

After three hours of unpolished dicing and slicing, Ori Benoni and Amelia Ribbens tasted the pasta they had painstakingly prepared for the residents of Alexandria House, a transitional homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles. Read more...

Photo: Amelia Ribbens, a third-year comparative literature and Spanish and Portuguese student and the volunteer coordinator of IMHOME, prepares a meal for the children and women living at Alexandria House, a transitional homeless shelter. (Hee Jae Choi/Daily Bruin)