The Westwood Neighborhood Council is the city’s official advisor on Westwood politics. In November, students and other Westwood community members announced plans to form a new neighborhood council because they felt the current one did not adequately address their issues. Read more...
Interactive Page, News, Westwood
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May 23, 2:10 am
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News, Student Government
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May 23, 12:36 am
Judicial board ordered to review petition against election board
This post was updated May 23 at 12:53 p.m. The undergraduate student government voted to order the judicial board to review a petition against the election board at its council meeting Tuesday night. Read more...
Photo: Undergraduate Students Association Council voted to order the judicial board to review a petition against the election board Tuesday. (Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)
A Closer Look, News
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May 23, 12:09 am
Club launches website to connect inquisitive students with upperclassmen mentors
This post was updated May 23 at 12:35 a.m. A new website aims to connect underclassmen who want to declare or switch their majors with upperclassmen mentors. Read more...
Photo: DevX, a club that creates apps and online products geared toward UCLA students, held a soft launch earlier this month for BQuest, a website that links students considering different majors with upperclassmen ambassadors from similar fields of study. (Photo courtesy of Linea Anderson)
Campus, News
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May 23, 12:07 am
Students host event aimed to promote unified indigenous cultures on campus
UCLA alumni who participated in a hunger strike in 1993 said at an event Tuesday they faced racial and cultural barriers as indigenous students. The Eagle and the Condor Liberation Front, a student-led organization that promotes the unity of indigenous peoples, hosted an event to honor the 14-day sit-in and hunger strike in 1993 that led to the creation of the Chicana/o studies department. Read more...
Photo: The event featured panelists who said they were frustrated that the university administration did not approve student proposals for the creation of a Chicano/a studies department in 1990. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)
Crime, News, Westwood
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May 23, 12:06 am
Unclear if DelVesco was sexually assaulted before her alleged murder, says LAPD
Forensic experts for Los Angeles police testified Tuesday it is inconclusive whether a UCLA student was sexually assaulted before she was killed in 2015. Ernest Park, a criminalist and DNA analyst with LAPD, said he examined samples from the body of Andrea “Andy” DelVesco, who had been killed in her apartment, which was set on fire. Read more...
News, Student Government
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May 23, 12:00 am
USAC hosts town hall to gather feedback in creating ISR position bylaws
Students called on undergraduate student government leaders to ensure that the new international student representative office will fight for international students’ financial wellness, mental health and legal rights at a town hall Monday. Read more...
Photo: General Representative 2 Kayla He and Ashraf Beshay, a fifth-year biology student and member of He’s office who advocated for the position’s creation, helped lead a town hall to gather feedback on the how to write the bylaws for the new international student representative office. (Quanzhao “Ari” He/Daily Bruin)
Campus, News
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May 22, 3:39 pm
Administrator Alfred Osborne announced as Anderson’s interim dean
A senior administrator will serve as the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s interim dean, the university announced Tuesday. Alfred Osborne Jr., the current senior associate dean for external affairs at Anderson, has agreed to serve as interim dean after Judy Olian, the current dean, finishes her term at the end of the academic year. Read more...
Photo: Alfred Osborne Jr., the current senior associate dean for external affairs at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, will serve as interim dean of Anderson. (UCLA Newsroom)