A crowd erupted with cheers after witnessing a narrow basketball game win, filling a Westwood bar shoulder-to-shoulder. Sports memorabilia and brightly lit signs lined the green walls, with customers crowding tables for a better view of the numerous television screens. Read more...
Photo: Sepi’s, a sports bar on Le Conte Avenue, announced it would close at the end of the month after 50 years in Westwood. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated April 25 at 6:08 p.m. A student started a letter-writing campaign to a UCLA fraternity April 9 to address its treatment of sexual assault allegations. Read more...
Photo: Daphne Sinclaire, a second-year anthropology and geography student, began a letter-writing campaign to a UCLA fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, to address its treatment of sexual assault allegations. Sinclaire said she hopes the campaign will motivate the fraternity to amend and enforce policies that aim to prevent sexual violence and support victims. (Daily Bruin file photo)
An interfaith committee featured students from different religions Tuesday to promote understanding across faiths. Panelists from various religions – including Catholicism, Judaism and Islam – spoke about their experiences with their religion in life and in college, how they have developed their faith and how their beliefs have helped them to find a community on campus. Read more...
Photo: Panelists from different religions spoke about their experiences with their religion in college to promote understanding across faiths at an event Tuesday. The Undergraduate Students Association Council president’s office hosted the event. (Jacqueline Gerdne/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated April 29 at 5:43 p.m. Students and professors said naming facilities after large donors gives an unfair advantage to donors’ families while administrators said donations do not influence admission. Read more...
Photo: UCLA renamed the humanities building after Renee and David Kaplan this year. Gov. Gavin Newsom said he thinks naming buildings on campus after wealthy donors is a form of legal bribery. UCLA community members offered their view on Newsom’s statement. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
Several students said they support continuing a boycott of two hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei after the country instituted anti-LGBTQ laws. The Sultan of Brunei announced a new penal code based on Sharia law which included punishment of homosexuality and adultery by stoning or whipping to death April 3, prompting calls for boycotts of hotels owned by the Sultan in the United States. Read more...
Photo: The Hotel Bel-Air, less than two miles from campus, is owned by the Sultan of Brunei. Several students have said they are boycotting the hotels after recent controversy. (Courtesy of Hotel Bel-Air)
A student-directed project aims to educate Los Angeles foster girls about healthy living and raise public awareness about foster youth. Project Maryvale partners with Maryvale Residential Homes, a foundation in Rosemead, California, that houses foster girls ages 6 to 18, to put on educational presentations for Maryvale’s residents. Read more...
Photo: Members of Project Maryvale travel to a foster home in Rosemead twice a quarter to help educate foster girls about healthy living. The group also works to raise public awareness about foster youth in Los Angeles. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
UCLA researchers created a device that can generate electricity from snow. The device, called the snow-TENG, is a thin, transparent sheet of mostly silicone, which can be inexpensively manufactured using a 3D printer. Read more...
Photo: The snow-TENG generates a small amount of electricity for a variety of uses, from weather tracking to powering wearable clothing technology. (Courtesy of Abdelsalam Ahmed)
