UCLA activists are calling on major fast food chains to improve the safety and sustainability of the meat they serve. Students at the UCLA chapter of the California Public Interest Research Group, an advocacy group, traveled to In-N-Out Burger’s Irvine headquarters Saturday to deliver 82 petitions calling on the fast food chain to reduce the […]
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Graduate students join national protest against taxing waived tuition
More than a hundred graduate and undergraduate students gathered at UCLA Wednesday to protest a tax bill that would eliminate tax exemptions for graduate students’ tuition waivers. Under a Republican bill passed by the House of Representatives earlier this month, in-state and out-of-state graduate students could see their taxes increase by up to 196 percent […]
Health club serves underprivileged Vietnamese and Hispanic communities
Student volunteers spent eight hours Sunday providing healthcare services to Vietnamese-Americans in Westminster, California. Vietnamese Community Health is a student-run organization at UCLA that provides health care services to Vietnamese-American and Hispanic communities in Orange County. At their fall quarter health fair, students worked with doctors to provide cholesterol and glucose testing, vision screening and […]
Student develops miniature ion thrusters as rocket fuel alternative
Miniature ion thrusters developed by a UCLA student present an exciting alternative to rocket fuel