Students spent their Saturday exploring historical and cultural sites in Downtown Los Angeles on the first Diverse City Tour of the year. The Diverse City Tours program, housed under the Cultural Affairs Commission within the Undergraduate Students Association Council, allows students to venture outside Westwood and learn more about Los Angeles for free. Students visited […]
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Student-run basic needs redistribution center to open in activities center
A student-run basic needs center opened Friday to distribute free resources on campus. The Good Clothes Good People redistribution center in Student Activities Center B54 will offer students a centralized place to donate and pick up clothes, school supplies and hygiene products. GCGP, a nonprofit organization that collects and donates these products, collaborated with 16 […]
Daily Bruin takes home three first-place Pinnacle Awards
The Daily Bruin won three first-place awards for college journalism Friday. The Bruin won a total of 13 awards, including three first-place awards, at the College Media Association’s 2017-2018 Pinnacle Awards. The Pinnacle Awards are national honors awarded annually to college media organizations and individuals. They are open to student work produced for any print, […]
’10 Questions’ lecture addresses memory, storytelling and capacity to change
The “10 Questions” lecture series, which will address a different question each week, doubles as a course for students and a panel open to the public. The series will explore open-ended questions such as “What is beauty?”, “What is failure?” and “What is knowledge?” Each week’s panel will feature two faculty members from the School […]
Bird and Lime slapped with class-action lawsuit over rider and pedestrian injuries
Two Los Angeles-based attorneys filed a class-action lawsuit against e-scooter companies and scooter manufacturers on behalf of injured riders and pedestrians earlier this month. Catherine Lerer and Jeffrey Costell filed the lawsuit on behalf of eight plaintiffs in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Oct. 19. The suit alleges that e-scooter companies Bird and Lime, […]
Pangolin Trafficking Project researchers voice concerns about pangolin awareness
Researchers in the UCLA Congo Basin Institute and Center for Tropical Research are using genomic tools to track down the global trafficking routes of pangolins and their scales. Ryan Harrigan, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor and researcher in the Pangolin Trafficking Project, said pangolins are severely endangered due to poaching for their scales, which […]
Freshly appointed election board chair hopes to rewrite election code
This post was updated Oct. 31 at 2:33 p.m. A former undergraduate student government presidential candidate was appointed election board chair Tuesday night. Richard White, a fourth-year political science student and the Leaders Influencing Tomorrow presidential candidate in the 2018 Undergraduate Student Association Council elections, was confirmed by the council in a 10-2-1 vote after […]