The Los Angeles City Council will decide whether to revert the L.A. Mobility Plan 2035 it adopted in August to a previous version in response to a community group’s lawsuit. The plan is a guide for city officials and agencies on transportation-related issues for the next 20 years, with objectives including painting about 300 miles […]
Author Archives: Catherine Liberty Feliciano
Catherine Liberty Feliciano: UCLA should not ban, but regulate Yik Yak
Everything is forever on the Internet now. Bylines, twitter handles and never-ending archives hold us accountable for everything we’ve ever dared to publish. Yik Yak is a different story – temporary, anonymous and a matter of controversy. Several feminist and civil rights organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil […]
UCLA Centennial Campaign to fund life sciences innovation projects
The UCLA life sciences division announced Wednesday it will fund three research projects using money raised through the Centennial Campaign. Two student winners will each receive $10,000 and one faculty winner will receive $75,000 to pursue research ideas that have the potential to lead to scientific discoveries in the life sciences, according to an email […]
Saving water becomes costly for LA residents
A city commission approved an additional utility charge Tuesday after the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power collected $110 million less than expected, following successful water conservation efforts over the past year. On average, residents will be charged an additional 3.6 percent, or about $1.80 a month, for the 2016 calendar year. The Los […]
Throwback Thursday, Week 4: Don’t Walk
It’s Thursday and I’ve somehow taken an Uber to campus five times this week in a panicked rush. I think I should be more ashamed of my excess – after all, I am not the sharing economy’s biggest fan and my weekly failure to go to the John Wooden Center means running late to class […]
Catherine Liberty Feliciano: New CAPS policy hinders those with long-term mental health issues
Reasons aside, I was recently advised to consider Counseling and Psychological Services with the assurance that going there didn’t mean that I was on the verge of a mental breakdown. But it could have. And it has. And when that happened, CAPS did its best to help me re-orient myself before referring me to a […]
Mental health at the University of California – fast facts
University of California psychological counseling centers served 33,164 patients in the 2014-2015 fiscal year. Of those patients, 6,228 were at UCLA. About 5 percent of all UC students were seen for either crisis, urgent or triage same-day appointments between July 1, 2014 and Feb. 28, 2015. In 2014, 23 percent more students used UCLA’s Counseling […]