Author Archives: Julia Raven

Green Initiative Fund referendum added to special election ballot

The undergraduate student government added a referendum on Sept. 23 to its fall special election ballot to indefinitely extend mandatory students fees for the Green Initiative Fund. The referendum, which passed with a 9-0-1 vote, was written by Undergraduate Students Association Council Facilities Commissioner Carlos Quintanilla. Currently, the mandatory fee requires students to pay $4 […]

Students recognize veterans’ services through Volunteer Day

UCLA students crowded into hallways with chipping taupe paint and a vegetable garden overrun with leaves and branches at a transitional veteran center Monday. In three separate groups, about 100 UCLA students raked and painted hallways on two floors of a building in the Veterans Succeeding in the 21st Century center, as part of the […]

The Facing Project voices Bruins’ struggles to access higher education

Students who have struggled to access higher education will have an opportunity to share their stories with the campus community starting first week, as part of a year-long project of the undergraduate student government. The Facing Project, headed on campus by the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Community Service Commission, will consist of first-person narratives detailing […]

Mentor seeks education reform to benefit underserved youth

Throughout his life, Sidney Thompson has seen students turn to gang violence because they were not given the tools to succeed by their educators. Thompson now has two goals: to recruit teachers to a UCLA graduate program specializing in underserved youth and to rewrite the way algebra is taught in schools – both to give […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, UCLA alumnus Tony Auth dies at 72

Tony Auth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and former Daily Bruin staff member, died Sept. 14 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after undergoing treatment for metastatic brain cancer. He was 72. Auth was known by friends and readers as a cartoonist who could capture a complex issue with a single frame that evoked […]

Persistence proves instrumental to sixth-year Bruin’s success

While his peers go out to get lunch, Noel Medrano goes to the practice room every break between classes to improve his playing technique. This persistence to perfect his music has made Medrano a meticulous band director, a job he takes on during the summer at his old high school, John H. Francis Polytechnic High […]