UCLA had 25 cases of faculty, staff and employees who sexually harassed university community members between 2013 and 2016, the second-highest number among the 10 UC campuses, according to documents released by University of California campuses Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: About 35 percent of complainants in the 113 sexual harassment case reports released by individual University of California campuses Tuesday were students. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
A committee trying to reform the undergraduate student government to include underrepresented communities held its first meeting Tuesday night. The ad hoc committee, which aims to discuss ways to increase student representation in the Undergraduate Students Association Council, is meant to consist of several USAC representatives and a student focus group. Read more...
Photo: USAC Transfer Student Representative Divya Sharma spoke to some attendees at a meeting about the importance of student representation in student government. (Manpreet Kaur Grewal/Daily Bruin)
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government that represents the undergraduate student body at UCLA. Council meetings take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Read more...
UCLA faculty recently received professional development awards honoring its research and teaching successes. Almost 90 lecturers won the annual Unit 18 professional development awards, UCLA announced Tuesday. Read more...
An historic 50 year-old single screen theater in Westwood will soon be restored to its original facade and replaced by two restaurants. The Landmark Regent Theater is a single-screen theater that has shown mainly independent and foreign films since 2002. Read more...
Photo: The Landmark Regent Theatre will soon close, to be replaced by two restaurants. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)
A Russian-speaking hacker sold unauthorized access to databases for more than 60 universities and government agencies in the United States and United Kingdom, including UCLA. The hacker, called Rasputin, sold SQL injections which allow a hacker to access all the contents of an internet database, rather than only parts of it, for various databases according to a statement by Recorded Future, a technology company that specializes in real-time threat intelligence. Read more...
This post was updated Feb. 28 at 10 p.m. A UCLA professor emeritus was one of at least 25 UCLA faculty, staff and contractors who violated sexual misconduct policy within the past three years, according to documents received by The Daily Californian. Read more...
