Suzy Strutner – Daily Bruin

Chilean Winter: Protests offer lessons for UC student organizers

A hooded student guards his high school after student protesters took over the campus during a march on Aug. 28. The hooded protesters, known as encapuchados, stacked chairs from their classrooms against the school’s front gates. To enter a campus and break up a takeover, police need a warrant, which can take up to two weeks to secure.

Few stuck around to see the end of the march. The streets were slick with the spray of the water cannons police had used to break up groups of lingering students.

Suzy Strutner: Tiny hands put protests in larger perspective

I went to Chile with a purpose: to understand why the students there protest their education system. Before leaving, I spent months interviewing professors in offices and sitting at long tables with government researchers and making calls on Skype from my bedroom in Westwood to high school administrators in Santiago. But none of those official […]

Family members, students participate in Chilean protests

In Chile, it is not rare to see tens of thousands of protesters marching through Santiago’s main thoroughfares during a demonstration for education equality.

UCLA student attends Democratic National Convention as delegate

Red, white and blue paraphernalia adorned the arena. Swarms of news crews scattered the floor, as thousands of people, some of them recognizable from major television networks, came together.

UC Board of Regents votes unanimously to approve $152 million conference center and hotel

At the regents’ bimonthly board meeting on Wednesday, the board voted unanimously to approve the $152 million Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center. Upon completion, the center will house 25,000 square feet of meeting space, 250 guest rooms and a new parking garage on Westwood Plaza and Strathmore Drive, replacing Parking Structure 6.

UC Board of Regents approve funding for proposed Luskin Conference and Guest Center

The UC Board of Regents voted unanimously to fund a proposed conference center on the UCLA campus during their bimonthly board meeting today.
The $152 million Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center will house 25,000 square feet of meeting space, 250 guest rooms and a new parking garage on Westwood Plaza and Strathmore Drive, replacing Parking Structure 6.

Senate Bill 1550 proposes pilot program that charges higher fees to help offset community college cuts

A bill intended to help community colleges cope with budget restrictions by changing how their courses are structured is making its way through California Senate committees and will soon be up for a vote in the Senate.