Students played recreational activities and outdoor games at UCLA’s first Bruin Games event Wednesday. About 60 people attended the event, which was hosted by the Undergraduate Students Association Council general representative 3, at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center. Students played in a soccer tournament and participated in cultural activities like origami and the board game […]
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New digital humanities summer class to offer hands-on analyses of LA
UCLA will offer a new interdisciplinary course involving hands-on projects and fieldwork in Los Angeles this summer. Students registered in summer sessions can apply to Digital Humanities 30: “Los Angeles Tech City: Digital Technologies & Spatial Justice” until July 2. The five-unit course offers a combination of technology, design and urban humanities studies through hands-on […]
New Dining Services online feature optimizes meal-time efficiency
A new feature on the UCLA Dining Services website allows students to see how busy dining halls are during meal times. The new software system, called Haystack, was developed as a research project by computer science graduate student Joshua Joy. The software on the Dining website went live May 12 and combines historical visitor data […]
Gene Block, Jerry Kang weigh in on UC finance allocations, free speech
Chancellor Gene Block meets with the Daily Bruin Editorial Board every quarter to discuss issues affecting the campus and to explain administrative policies. At their meeting Wednesday, Block, joined by Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang, addressed the list of demands by the Afrikan Student Union, the University of California cap on […]
Student groups host POLITIFEST to spark political discussion
A co-host of The Young Turks, a popular online news show, engaged students in a discussion about bursting politically ideological bubbles Monday. The Bruin Political Union and the undergraduate student government’s Campus Events Commission hosted POLITIFEST on the Hill on Monday night. About 100 students attended the event, which featured a town hall discussion about […]
UCLA PRISM holds therapeutic panel following break from InterVarsity
Kimberly Lau found a home and safe space at the only Chinese immigrant church in Davis where the only people of color at her elementary school were three Asian children and an African-American child. However, when Lau started questioning her sexuality in the eighth grade, she felt distant from the church, which did not validate […]
Progressive student groups campaign for out-of-state candidates
Campus political groups are supporting their preferred congressional candidates across the country to try to maximize their impact on the political environment. Progressive groups, such as Bruins Elect and Young Progressives Demanding Action at UCLA, held a phone banking event Tuesday evening for Rob Quist, the Democratic candidate in Montana’s at-large congressional district special election […]