Friday, February 13

UCLA professor discussed students, class with Jeffrey Epstein, DOJ documents show

Editor’s Note: This article contains references to sex offenses, including against minors, which some readers may find disturbing. This article was updated Feb. 13 at 4:55 p.m. Read more...

Photo: Mark Tramo, an associate adjunct professor of neurology, holds a guitar. Tramo corresponded with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein via email between 2010 to 2019, including about Tramo’s UCLA class. (Daily Bruin file photo)


USAC’s financial transparency website initiative remains delayed past expectations

This post was updated Feb. 5 at 10:12 p.m. The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Financial Supports Commission anticipated releasing a finalized financial transparency website detailing the council’s funding allocations by June 2025. Read more...

Photo: The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Financial Expenditure Viewer draft site is picture in front of Financial Supports Commissoner Nico Morrone’s office. Morrone said the site would show USAC’s funding allocations by the end of spring quarter, but the website has yet to be finalized. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Epstein files reveal emails between alumnus Casey Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell

This post was updated Feb. 3 at 11:01 p.m. UCLA donor and alumnus Casey Wasserman exchanged emails with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in the early 2000s, according to the latest release of the Epstein files. Read more...

Photo: UCLA donor and alumnus Casey Wasserman is pictured second from the right. Wasserman exchanged emails with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in the early 2000s, according to the latest release of the Epstein files. (Daily Bruin file photo)


SWC’s Peer Support Lounge provides wellness resources, study space for students

This post was updated Feb 8. at 10:44 p.m. The Peer Support Lounge in Kerckhoff Hall offers free wellness resources – including free snacks, emergency contraceptives and toiletries – to students. Read more...

Photo: The inside of the Student Wellness Commission’s Peer Support Lounge is pictured. The PSL offers free wellness resources such as snacks, emergency contraceptives and toiletries for students. (Leydi Cris Cobo Cordon/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Court reverses former UCLA gynecologist sexual battery conviction, orders retrial

This post was updated Feb. 3 at 10:55 p.m. A state appeals court reversed a ruling Monday against a former UCLA gynecologist who was sentenced to prison for felony sexual battery and penetration, sending the case back to court. Read more...

Photo: James Heaps, a former UCLA gynecologist who was sentenced to prison for felony sexual battery and penetration, sits in court. A state appeals court reversed a ruling Monday against Heaps, sending the case back to court for a retrial. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Pulitzer Prize winner, former chair of UCLA History Daniel Walker Howe dies at 88

Daniel Walker Howe, the former chair of UCLA’s history department and a Pulitzer Prize winner, died Dec. 25. He was 88 years old. Howe was a faculty member in UCLA’s history department from 1972 to 1993 and served as the department’s chair from 1983 to 1987. Read more...

Photo: Daniel Walker Howe, the former chair of UCLA’s history department and a Pulitzer Prize winner, died Dec. 25 at 88 years old. Howe – a historian of 19th-century religion – studied religious movements and their impacts on American culture. (Courtesy of the Howe family)


Thousands of people protest in Westwood for Iranian regime change

This post was updated Feb. 1 at 9:59 p.m. Thousands of people blocked off streets and protested in Westwood on Sunday for Iranian regime change. Protesters – who chanted “we want freedom” and “Trump, act now” – blocked off parts of Westwood Boulevard between Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard starting at about 12:45 p.m.  The Islamic Republic, Iran’s incumbent government, has killed more than 6,000 people since protests broke out in the country in December amid an economic crisis, according to the United States-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. Read more...

Photo: People protest in Westwood on Sunday for Iranian regime change. Protesters blocked off part of Westwood Boulevard between Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard starting at about 12:45 p.m. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)