UCLA lecturer’s work on prison program allows inmates exposure to arts

They told him they didn’t want a bureaucrat, so Tom Skelly took the job at Chino prison. At the state institution, sprawled across 2,500 acres of land in San Bernardino County, Skelly’s job as the prison’s new arts facilitator started simply. It was 1980 and the 28-year-old had never been in a jail or in […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, UCLA alumnus Tony Auth dies at 72

Tony Auth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and former Daily Bruin staff member, died Sept. 14 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after undergoing treatment for metastatic brain cancer. He was 72. Auth was known by friends and readers as a cartoonist who could capture a complex issue with a single frame that evoked […]

USAC launches ‘All of Us’ mental health awareness campaign

Devin Murphy felt his self-awareness and self-worth deteriorate at the end of his second year at UCLA. After losing in the undergraduate student election for the position of a general representative in May 2013, facing hostility from extended family members for being gay and wondering if he would be able to afford to live in […]

UCPD found girl missing from UCLA Medical Center

This post was updated at 3:50 p.m. on Sept. 25. Police said they have found a 17-year-old girl Thursday who left the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Monday. Sarah Abera had last been seen at 10:17 a.m. Monday on the fourth floor of the hospital, according to a university police alert. Abera lives in Santa Monica and […]