Six years ago, three strangers attacked Ivan Lopez from behind while he was walking home at night from a bus stop on Venice Boulevard, leaving him bleeding and injured. “I thought they were going to kill me,” said Lopez, a 55-year-old adjunct professor in the department of head and neck surgery at the UCLA David […]
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Napolitano supports legislation to prevent, report sexual assault
University of California President Janet Napolitano testified before a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday to support the creation of legislation that aims to prevent and report campus sexual assault nationwide. The Senate committee is considering passing the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, a bipartisan bill that would require campuses to record how often sexual assaults occur […]
Psychologist to discuss impact of superhero stories at TEDxUCLA
Two years ago, Andrea Letamendi became Batgirl’s psychologist. Letamendi appeared in two issues of the comic series as a clinical psychologist who helped Batgirl cope with the trauma of being paralyzed by the Joker. Letamendi, a clinical psychologist and assistant director of the clinical training program at a nonprofit mental health agency, has a lot […]
Pilipin* Youth Empowerment Day engages students in cultural dialogue
About 50 students from local high schools and community colleges gathered in Boelter Hall classrooms Saturday to discuss their Filipino heritage and culture with students in Samahang Pilipino, a UCLA cultural group. The organization hosted Pilipin* Youth Empowerment Day, an event that featured workshops that focused on Filipino-American history, identity and representation in the media. […]
Alumnus uses personal experience, poetry to help combat homelessness
Michael Gaulden first learned what it was like to be homeless when he was 7 years old, doing his homework under streetlights at night and living in homeless shelters with his mother and sister. “I was looked at as being less than a person,” Gaulden said. “I wished someone would just come up and give […]
AT&T to relocate store to new Westwood location
The Westwood AT&T store plans to relocate down the street to the previous location of Urban Outfitters on Westwood Boulevard by the end of the year. The new AT&T store will be located on the southeast corner of Westwood Boulevard and Kinross Avenue, and is slated to open in the fall, said Meredith Red, spokeswoman […]
Bilingual Fair showcases LA schools with multi-language education
Several hundred parents, children and educators attended the first Bilingual Fair of Los Angeles on campus Sunday, featuring roughly 40 exhibits from bilingual and multilingual schools and publishers in the Los Angeles area. Hosted by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, the fair aimed to reach bilingual parents in Los Angeles who were […]