Associated Students UCLA will redesign a lounge in Ackerman Union this quarter to create a temporary nondenominational space where students and faculty can pray and meditate. The ASUCLA board of directors voted Dec. 4 to create the space, after members of the undergraduate student government gave presentations about the need for such a space on […]
Author Archives: Catherine Liberty Feliciano
LAPD officer involved in shooting at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
A police officer fired shots at a UCLA-affiliated hospital in Torrance on Saturday, police said. No further information about the shooting was immediately available. The shooting took place about 3 p.m. at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, said LAPD spokesperson Jane Kim. Police have yet to release how many people were involved or whether they have […]
Former urban planning professor, social justice advocate passes away
Jacqueline Leavitt, a professor emerita in urban planning and advocate for improved treatment of marginalized groups in urban planning, died Nov. 27 in Culver City from cancer-related complications. She was 76. She taught urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs for 32 years and directed the UCLA Community Scholars Program from 1999 […]
Throwback Thursday, Week 8: (Lab) School is Cool
No move made by our administration is without calculation. That’s certainly the case for the recently announced Geffen Academy at UCLA, a middle and high school planned to replace the graduate students’ recreation center and cater to the children of faculty, staff and, somehow, Greater Los Angeles. The academy’s foundation will be based on a […]
Vigil held on campus for Paris terror attack victims
EuroBruins, a campus organization dedicated to celebrating European culture, held a vigil and walk Monday night in front of Kerckhoff Hall to honor the victims of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
QGrad conference discusses LGBT conversion treatments, acceptance
Gary Hayashi frequently offers counsel to individuals who have lost their identities trying to mirror others’ expectations and struggle to come out as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Eleven years ago, he was one of them. Hayashi, now a marriage and family therapist, shared his experience as a member of an ex-gay ministry at a […]
Throwback Thursday, Week 7: Undocumented students wrapped in red tape
I tend to avoid talking about anything so complicated it demands reading more than one Wikipedia entry to understand. This includes, of course, undocumented immigrants’ issues, which are entrenched in a history of criminalization, exploitation and – the unifying factor – endless bureaucracy. On Nov. 13, 2001, the Daily Bruin ran a submission co-written by […]