This post was updated April 15 at 2:32 p.m. The Daily Bruin editorial staff met with The Bruin’s publishing board Wednesday to call for reforms in the policies governing the appointment of future editors in chief, after several Bruin staff members announced a strike Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Dozens of Daily Bruin staffers went on strike Tuesday morning after the board which oversees the paper selected an editor in chief against the staff endorsement. (Liz Ketcham/Assistant Photo editor)
Standing outside Murphy Hall, service workers wearing green shirts and carrying noisemakers and rattles chanted, “We are not afraid.” University of California service employees held a systemwide strike Wednesday after their union claimed the UC had condoned the intimidation of workers participating in previous strikes. Read more...
Photo: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, the UC’s largest employee union, held a systemwide strike Wednesday in response to the UC’s alleged intimidation of workers. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Eric Scerri, a UCLA chemistry lecturer, has written at least six books discussing the orientation of the periodic table. His office is cluttered with posters and three-dimensional models of different periodic systems. Read more...
Photo: The left step periodic table places helium with highly reactive elements such as magnesium and calcium instead of in the rightmost column with the other less reactive elements. (Creative Commons photos by Valery Tsimmerma and Dmarcus100 via Wikimedia Commons)
Political and intelligence experts said they think the United States Attorney General’s assessment of an investigation into President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with the Russian government may be misleading, at a Hammer Museum event Wednesday. Read more...
Photo: Malcolm Nance, a counter-terrorism and intelligence analyst, Ian Masters, a journalist and political radio host, Asha Rangappa, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent and CNN counterintelligence analyst and Scott Horton, a legal expert (pictured left to right), spoke at a Hammer Museum event about the impact of the recently released Mueller report. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)
University police are searching for a man involved in an off-campus assault Tuesday. The man allegedly approached the victim on Westwood Boulevard and Weyburn Avenue. He then struck the back of the victim’s head with a metal rod at around 9 p.m., causing minor injury, according to a UCPD alert. Read more...
A UCLA history and African American studies professor has been appointed as the new director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Bunche Center’s interim director and a leading expert on immigration, race and mass incarceration, will start the position of director this July. Read more...
Photo: Kelly Lytle Hernández, a UCLA History and African American studies professor, has been appointed as director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
A recent report showed low-income students and students of color graduate with a disproportionate amount of debt. The study, published by University of California Student Association and The Institute for College Access & Success last month, showed student debt distribution is skewed toward low-income families and students of color, despite the UC’s extensive financial aid programs. Read more...
Photo: (Mavis Zeng/Daily Bruin)
