The Regional Connector Transit Project, a series of new stops along a light rail Metro line, will open Friday. Two new routes are opening – one running from East Los Angeles through downtown LA to Santa Monica and the other from Azusa to Long Beach. Read more...
Photo: Pictured is the train to Union Station. Three new light rail Metro stations will open in Los Angeles on Friday. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Subleasing is popular among students leaving Westwood for the summer, but some have said they find challenges in doing so. Rather than paying rent for a vacant room when going home for the summer, students often look for other students to sublet their apartment spaces. Read more...
Photo: An illustration depicts monopoly houses scattered over a map of Westwood. Often, subleasing occurs because students want to make money from their apartment while traveling over the summer. (Isabella Lee/Illustrations Director)
UCPD is searching for a suspect allegedly involved in a robbery at a fraternity house early Sunday morning. The off-campus incident took place at the Sigma Nu fraternity house at about 2:46 a.m. Read more...
UCPD is searching for suspects reportedly involved in an off-campus battery and hate crime Sunday morning. The incident took place at about 12:55 a.m. on the 400 block of Gayley Avenue, according to a UCPD crime alert that was sent Monday afternoon. The suspects reportedly drove past the victim and threw eggs at her and her friends. Read more...
UCLA Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence is inviting the public to help look for aliens. As part of the group’s community science project, “Are we alone in the universe?”, members of the public analyze radio waves captured by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia – the largest fully steerable telescope on Earth – and identify unique patterns in the waves that may indicate extraterrestrial life. Read more...
Photo: Members of the UCLA Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence are pictured. The team’s new community science project “Are we alone in the universe?” allows members of the public to classify radio signals in hopes of identifying one made by extraterrestrial life. (Photo courtesy of Ben Paul. Illustration by Ashley Ko/Illustrations director)
For Rebecca Glasberg, the change students were able to enact through the UC graduate student worker strike was inspiring. As a former public school teacher in Virginia – where teachers do not have the legal right to go on strike – she felt empowered by her newfound ability to strike despite the delay in research and disconnect from her students. Read more...
Photo: A crowd at the UC graduate student worker strike is pictured. Many graduate student workers plan to continue working in academia despite the issues shown before, during and after the strike. (Christine Kao/Daily Bruin staff)
The Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic at the UCLA School of Law is fighting the racist history of United States immigration law. The clinic provides law students with the chance to gain experience with immigration law and policy through research and advocacy opportunities, as well as through work with community organizations, said Talia Inlender, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy’s deputy director. Read more...
Photo: A photo of members of the Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic testifying at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing on race and migration. (Courtesy of Bryan Giardinelli)
