In response to what they call a lack of student voice in Westwood issues, student leaders have created a new outlet aimed at allowing students to express concerns and suggestions to the city. The Westwood and North Village Council will allow students to address issues such as rent, safety and public works. Marwa Kaisey, president […]
Author Archives: Julia Erlandson
Objecting to use of police force
Hundreds of UCLA students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in Meyerhoff Park Friday afternoon to protest the multiple uses of a Taser on a UCLA student by university police. A Taser was used five times on Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a fourth-year Middle Eastern and North African studies and philosophy student, in Powell Library Tuesday night […]
[Online Exclusive]: UCLA community gathers to protest Taser incident, campus violence
Meyerhoff Park was electric Friday afternoon when more than 400 students, faculty, staff, parents and community members gathered to protest the use of a Taser multiple times on a UCLA student in Powell Library on Tuesday night. Student leaders stood on the steps of Kerckhoff Hall, leading the crowd in chants that included "One, two, […]
UCLA asks for more hospital funds
UCLA officials asked the UC Board of Regents for an additional $308 million to complete construction on two new hospitals Tuesday. If the funding is approved, the Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Westwood will receive more than half the money, and the remainder will go to the UCLA-Santa Monica Medical Center. The two facilities, which […]
Thefts not a recent trend
The Wooden Center has experienced a number of property thefts in recent weeks, but university officials said the spate is not unprecedented. Since Oct. 26, at least three incidents of backpacks and wallets being stolen from the Wooden Center have been reported to the police. In most of the reported incidents, items were stolen from […]
UCLA faculty teach in Kenya
Seven months ago, Victor Tabbush found himself in a somewhat unlikely place for a business school professor from California. Instead of a lecture hall in UCLA’s Anderson School of Management where he is a professor, Tabbush took the floor of a classroom in the heart of Nairobi, Kenya. Instead of MBA students, he addressed representatives […]
Anti-Semitism marks UCLA
A Kerckhoff Hall restroom was vandalized sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning when someone drew swastikas and scrawled “fuck Jews” on a stall door. As of Wednesday afternoon, police said they had received no reports of the incident, which will likely qualify as a hate crime. According to the university police Web site, any incident […]