Tag Archives: Campus murder-suicide

UCLA Philharmonia to honor professor William Klug with free concert

A free orchestral concert Thursday will honor the UCLA professor who died in Wednesday’s murder-suicide, musicians said. The music department will dedicate Thursday’s UCLA Philharmonia concert to mechanical and aerospace engineering professor William Klug, who was killed in Wednesday’s murder-suicide on the UCLA campus. Admission fees for the concert, originally set at $14 for the […]

Campus shooter identified as former UCLA doctoral student

A former doctoral student has been identified as the man who killed a UCLA professor on campus Wednesday. Mainak Sarkar, a 38-year-old man who graduated from UCLA in 2013, drove from his home in Minnesota to Los Angeles to kill his former research adviser William Klug, police said. Sarkar killed Klug, who was an associate […]

Students paint hand prints on canvases to express support for community

This article was updated Nov. 9 at 3:55 p.m. Paul Wislotski wants to heal the campus one bedsheet at a time. On Wednesday afternoon, Wislotski hung an easel and a white sheet on the corner of Strathmore Avenue and Charles E. Young Drive and offered a palette of colorful oil pastels to every student passing […]

Campus lockdown disrupts final exams, class presentations

A student stood up in class Wednesday morning to protest the professor who continued to lecture during the campus shooting. “I don’t think you’re taking this seriously,” the student said, according to a classmate. “People’s lives are in danger and we’re just sitting here in class.” The classmate, second-year physiological science student Erika Monasch, said […]

Engineering classes cancelled for Thursday, Friday

UCLA officials cancelled all engineering classes for Thursday and Friday, following the campus shooting. Classes were cancelled to allow students, faculty and staff to cope with the shooting, said UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science spokesperson Bill Kisiluk. READ MORE: Full coverage of the Wednesday’s murder-suicide, campus reactions “(Members of) the engineering school […]

UCLA community on faculty reactions, confusion surrounding murder-suicide

Thousands of students checked their phones Wednesday morning after receiving an alert about police activity on campus. The next notice was more dire. “Shooting at Engineering 4. Go to secure location and deny entry (lockdown) now!” the BruinAlert said. Tommaso Bulfone, a fourth-year human biology and society student, who was in class when the alert […]