The United States congressman representing Los Angeles said at an event Thursday the current presidential administration’s influence on the media is threatening democracy and freedom of the press. Adam Schiff, ranking Democratic member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, spoke at the Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by the UCLA Burkle Center […]
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Conservative speaker Andrew Klavan offers different perspective on diversity
Andrew Klavan said he felt proud to be an American when he saw people of diverse cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and political affiliations at an airport in San Francisco. Klavan, a novelist and host of a daily podcast on the Daily Wire, spoke about a conservative perspective on diversity in the United States at an […]
UCLA ranks as second-best public university nationwide, ninth in world
A magazine that reports on higher education ranked UCLA the second-best public university in the United States. The Times Higher Education published their World Reputation Rankings for 2018 on Wednesday, which ranked UCLA ninth in the world among 100 universities, an increase from 13th last year. Harvard University ranked first for the eighth consecutive year. […]
Incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein talks UC funding, gun control
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she is depending on young people to advocate for gun control legislation. Members of the Daily Bruin Editorial Board spoke with Feinstein, a Democrat who is running for re-election against California state Sen. Kevin De León, via a phone call Monday. Feinstein, a current U.S. senator for California, has held […]
Student-created multimedia gallery tells stories of Holocaust survivors
Dana Schwartz was forced to say goodbye to her father without speaking or showing emotion, so as to not reveal her Jewish identity. Jacob Bresler searched for his brother for decades after World War II ended, reading countless letters and claims from all over the world. Schwartz and Bresler’s stories were featured at a multimedia […]
Photo: Students protest lack of representation at Indigenous Peoples Unite event
This post was updated May 24 at 10:55 a.m. Members of Students for Justice in Palestine held a protest at a Thursday event in which Jewish, Armenian and Kurdish students spoke about the histories of their peoples, claiming it did not acknowledge Palestinians as indigenous to the region. The event was meant to bring together […]
UCLA School of Law to accept GRE scores starting in 2019
Students applying to the UCLA School of Law will have the option to submit scores from the Graduate Record Exam instead of the Law School Admissions Test starting in 2019. The change was approved by the school’s faculty Monday to encourage students of different backgrounds to apply, according to a Wednesday press release. School of […]