University police will start handing out $200 tickets to bikers and skateboarders whizzing through Bruin Walk next week. UCPD officers have stopped students on wheels this past week and given warnings for violating dismount zones to let students know about the change. Tickets for violating the dismount zones are at least $200 and can be […]
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Almuni, philanthropists donate $2M to UCLA School of Dentistry
Two UCLA alumni recently donated $2 million to the UCLA School of Dentistry. The donation from philanthropists Bob and Marion Wilson establishes the Bob and Marion Wilson Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will be used to increase scholarship funding for future dentistry students. This gift is the largest the school of dentistry has ever received for […]
UCLA unveils new Edie & Lew Wasserman Building, research center
Campus officials unveiled the new Edie & Lew Wasserman Building, a research center and patient-care facility, at a private ceremony earlier this week. The building is dedicated to the late philanthropists Edie Wasserman and Lew Wasserman, who were among UCLA’s most ardent supporters, according to a UCLA press release. Among those at the ceremony were […]
UCLA students participate in “Carry that Weight”
Inspired by and in cooperation with the ‘Carry That Weight’ project of Columbia student Emma Sulkowitz, UCLA students join to show support for survivors of sexual assault. After contributing their experiences or those of survivors close to them, by writing them onto a mattress, the mattresses are carried all over campus. The art and activism […]
Students carry mattresses in solidarity with sexual assault survivors
Sexual assault survivors and advocates carried mattresses covered in the handwritten accounts of their experiences with gender-based violence in a student-led demonstration Wednesday. The event was inspired by Emma Sulkowicz, a Columbia University student who lost her disciplinary case against the man she claimed raped her in a university dorm room two years ago. As […]
Report shows UCLA law school alumni among highest paid in nation
UCLA School of Law alumni salaries ranked fourth among the nation’s law schools in a postgraduate earnings report published last week by the employment site PayScale. The report cited a median mid-career salary of $182,900 per year after 10 or more years of experience for UCLA law school alumni, falling behind alumni from Harvard Law […]
UCLA faculty to vote on implementing diversity requirement
If faculty vote this week to implement a diversity course requirement, UCLA will become the second to last University of California campus to do so. Among the nine UC campuses with undergraduate student bodies, seven have approved general education requirements in the last 25 years to teach students about structural inequalities and underrepresented groups in […]