Students de-stressed by throwing pies on other students’ faces Wednesday. Bruins for Healthcare held an event from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Dickson Court where students that were stressed from midterms or needed to release frustration got to pie the organization’s board members in the face. Bruins for Healthcare is a student organization that […]
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Student-created app matches strangers for meals on the Hill
Students who find themselves eating alone on the Hill have a new way to find a dining partner. With the Bruin Dine app, which was launched by three UCLA students, students are matched with a stranger for a meal. Since its creation last week, 97 students have searched for matches. The students created the app […]
Graphic: Proposition 64 would legalize marijuana
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Propositions 62, 66 take opposing approaches to California’s death penalty
Two propositions regarding the death penalty will appear on Tuesday’s statewide ballot – one which aims to repeal the death penalty and another that seeks to speed up the execution process. Voting yes on Proposition 62 would repeal the death penalty in California, making life imprisonment without parole the most serious punishment for criminals. Current […]
UC system forms largest donor bloc for Clinton presidential campaign
University of California employees and affiliates comprise the largest bloc of donors to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in the 2016 election cycle, according to data from the Federal Election Commission. According to FEC campaign filings, Clinton’s presidential campaign received about $1.3 million from employees and students within the UC system in 2016. Employees from Google’s […]
Photo: Minority Report draws attention to historic racism and inequality
UCLA held Minority Report, a theatrical performance that aimed to educate students about diversity and race relations, on Tuesday. The department of social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs held the event from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Broad Art Center. The goal of the performance was to educate people […]
English professor’s past struggles help him empathize with students
Blake Allmendinger would go up to his room when he was a child and escape to the world of mystery novels every time his parents began to fight. “Literature was the only thing I ever really liked,” Allmendinger said. Allmendinger, who has been an English professor at UCLA for 27 years, teaches a detective fiction […]