Close to Home: Associate professor discusses necessity of updated zoning regulations

Paavo Monkkonen, associate professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, studies the relationship between land-use regulations and segregation of housing by income in California. Monkkonen said part of the housing crisis in West Los Angeles is due to strict, outdated zoning regulations in densely populated areas. Consequently, housing costs have […]

Close to Home: By the Numbers

The Economic Crisis Response Team, launched in 2008 as a subset of the Student Affairs office, assists students in immediate and dire financial crisis. There are four forms of aid students can receive through ECRT: meal vouchers, emergency housing, one-time grants or emergency short-term loans. Students who qualify for the meal voucher program can receive […]

Three undergraduates to speak at TEDxUCLA in May

Three UCLA undergraduate students will speak about dance, air pollution and waste disposal among a lineup of professionals and experts at the sixth annual TEDxUCLA event in Royce Hall in May. TEDx organizers invited the students to apply after learning about their experiences. Coordinators chose about 20 speakers in total for the TEDxUCLA lineup after […]

Hillel fellow seeks to broaden discussion of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Lipaz Ela still recalls when her neighborhood supermarket in Jerusalem was blown up when she was 13 years old. She had gone to the same market the day before. The daily violence she lived with as a child followed her into her years as an officer for the Israel Defense Forces, in which she worked […]

Students abroad in South Africa witness racial representation protests

Nicole Nordstrom heard faint protests from her bedroom window when she was getting ready to go to class at the University of Cape Town in October. She went outside to see a group of about 200 majority black South African students and faculty members speaking in unison and marching toward the university. University of California […]

Sister duo delivers beauty salon services on the go

Each morning, Liz Garcia rolls bins full of nail polish, hot wax and hair styling tools from her car on Veteran Avenue to the Hill. She and her sister will likely spend 12 hours on campus, a feat they’re happy to accomplish. Jaqueline Garcia, a fourth-year sociology student, and her older sister Liz Garcia, a […]

Student bikes across country, contributes to affordable housing cause

After pedaling through open countryside and busy highways for weeks, Lizi Urbanowicz is more than 1,000 miles into her 4,000 mile-long bike trip across the United States to contribute to affordable housing. Urbanowicz, a rising third-year anthropology student, is volunteering this summer with Bike and Build, a nonprofit organization that facilitates cross-country biking trips. On […]