UCLA officials said they will live-stream Hillary Clinton’s upcoming UCLA lecture for 1,200 people after students expressed frustration over how tickets to the event were distributed.This week, students demanded UCLA change the venue of Hillary Clinton’s upcoming lecture at UCLA to accommodate more students. Many students said they were frustrated after a mob broke out […]
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UCLA students rally in support of higher wages for UC service workers
Students rallied inside the Hill’s dining halls on Wednesday evening to show their support for unionized University of California service workers who are currently voting on whether or not to strike in response to stalled contract negotiations. Dressed in red, about 10 students from the Student Collective Against Labor Exploitation at UCLA, commonly known as SCALE, entered De […]
Rally protests incidents of discrimination on UCLA campus
Students and faculty held a rally Monday to protest racial and gender discrimination on campus in response to a racist and sexist flier sent to UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center last week.
Researchers to release list of earthquake at-risk LA buildings
UC Berkeley researchers are expected to give Los Angeles a list this week of more than a thousand older concrete buildings that may be at risk of collapse in an earthquake. The list includes about 1,500 buildings in the city of Los Angeles, said Jack Moehle, a UC Berkeley engineering professor who helped compile the […]
Panel to discuss NSA surveillance, conflict with civil liberties
Every time someone in the United States dials a number on his or her cellphone or sends an email, data is collected and stored by the National Security Agency, the government’s signals intelligence arm. Thee current and future role of the NSA will be discussed on Wednesday in a panel hosted by Conor Friedersdorf, a […]
UCLA gears up for peak of flu season
Between UCLA Health System and the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, UCLA has administered more than 18,300 vaccines thus far this flu season, which kicked into full gear this month. On Friday, the California Department of Public Health released a statement declaring influenza as widespread, which is defined as being reported by more […]
Red-flag warning issued for areas of Southern California
A red-flag warning was issued for areas of Southern California after record-high temperatures and strong winds were predicted early this week. The red-flag warning, which means the weather is conducive to critical fire weather, began at 3 a.m. Monday morning and will run to 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Areas including Los Angeles and Ventura counties […]