The Village is quiet. Blinking lights illuminate “Westwood” on top of the observatory tower overlooking the undeveloped land of Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres in 1925. Decades later, Westwood is crowded with students, residents and travelers in line for the next big movie premiere. And yet in the following years, the Village goes quiet […]
Category Archives: A Closer Look
The Centennial Issue: The Big One
Books were tossed from library shelves. Asbestos rained from ceilings. Windows broke and tiles and bricks came loose across campus. Buildings flooded and chemicals spilled. Students living in apartments gathered in the streets to wait out the power outage together. Meanwhile, in the dorms, one resident was stuck in her room for two hours until […]
Nursing lecturer delivers last lecture on death, terminal illnesses of loved ones
Barbara Demman said she and her husband created a catchphrase while working with dying patients. As her class gathered for a group photo after her last lecture of the year, she said one of her students shouted it before the flash. “Somebody said, ‘Yay, we’re alive, on the count of three! One, two three,’ and […]
New UCLA association creates community for first-generation college students
Belen Bravo did not realize her experiences as a first-generation college student made her different from other students until her first year at UCLA. “I was on my floor last year and there was someone who said, ‘Yeah, I think my mom has like a Ph.D.’ My mom only went to middle school,” Bravo said. […]
Student founds organization to support people who stutter, aims to reduce stigma
When Nathan Mallipeddi was in high school, people mistakenly thought he lacked confidence because of his stuttering. “There’s a stigma that you’re not confident, you’re nervous – that’s a problem because for me, because when I was growing up and had to give a presentation, I wasn’t scared of people but everyone thought I was […]
TFT school meets to discuss details of Denove case, UCLA response
Theater, Film and Television school members informally addressed child sexual abuse charges against one of the department’s professors at a meeting Thursday. Thomas Fairleigh Denove, a professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, pleaded no contest to charges of child sexual abuse in November. At the time of the preliminary story’s […]
UCLA students, staff reverify initial mixed response to multifactor authentication
Some students and faculty said they think multifactor authentication is still an inconvenience a year after its implementation, while others said they appreciate the extra security it has provided. Multifactor authentication requires students and faculty who are logging into their UCLA accounts on websites such as MyUCLA to provide two forms of identification. All students […]