Students should only worry about taking exams – not getting the blue books needed for them, said Angel Herrera. Co-founded in 2019 by the third-year theater student alongside his friends, second-year economics and philosophy student David Lin and second-year film student Rohun Vora, NEED Westwood features student couriers completing delivery services on electric scooters. Vora […]
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Bruins for Accessible Resources holds first fair, providing variety of goods
Jayesh Menon became motivated to fight homelessness after witnessing a homeless woman begging for food with her infant daughter in Westwood Village last summer. “Everyone around us (was) ignoring her,” he said. “And that just really struck me, and that’s why I decided, you know, I should do something about this.” This led Menon, a […]
Engineering professor awarded Ellis Island Medal of Honor for antenna work
Yahya Rahmat-Samii’s lifelong passion for mathematics and space brought him from Iran to the United States to research antennas in the field of electromagnetics. “Like van Gogh used his brush to paint on canvas, so electromagnetic scientists are artists who use their antennae to paint electromagnetic waves,” he said. Rahmat-Samii, a distinguished professor of electrical […]
Panel discusses psychological impact of border centers of detained immigrant youth
Lisa Gantz said her experience working with immigrant children at a detention center in Brownsville, Texas, inspired her to create a task force at UCLA dedicated to helping immigrant youths at the Mexico-U.S. border. “After coming back to Los Angeles, I really tried to start looking around and see what was happening here at UCLA,” […]
New policy aims to prevent misrepresentation, disruption of service animals
UCLA updated its animal access policy to clarify which animals are allowed in campus buildings after several students attempted to pass off their dogs as service dogs. UCLA announced April 16 it had updated its Animals on Campus policy to specify distinct definitions for service animals, assistance animals and pets. While service animals are allowed […]
Students say they are left in the dark about how university allocates their fees
Students said they are often unaware how the university spends their student fees. Students pay two types of fees: UCLA-specific referendum fees, which are proposed by students and voted on during spring elections, and University of California systemwide fees, which are set by the UC Board of Regents. Ten out of 11 student fee charges […]
The Centennial Issue: Forging the Future
or Jan Reiff, activism means caring about issues beyond one’s self and then acting to make positive change on those issues. “It’s where you harness your emotions and your strong feelings to figure out how to make that turn into something,” said Reiff, a history professor. In the past hundred years, UCLA has been home […]