The Los Angeles City Council approved a proposal to move a bike lane from Westwood Boulevard to Gayley and Midvale avenues Friday, pending approval from the mayor and the Los Angeles City Planning Commission. The bike lane proposal, a part of the Mobility Plan 2035, will add bike lanes, bus lanes and sidewalk improvements across […]
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MakeUCLAGreatAgain candidate petitions for USAC election re-vote
MakeUCLAGreatAgain candidate Shubham Goel submitted a petition asking the USAC Election Board to disqualify the Social Justice Referendum and call a re-vote for all contested candidates in last week’s undergraduate student government election. Goel, the sole candidate who ran under the slate MakeUCLAGreatAgain, filed the petition to the USAC Judicial Board, which accepted it Friday […]
Urban planning students suggest changes to Westwood Village Specific Plan
Urban planning graduate students suggested officials split Westwood Village into four different districts, among other suggestions, to better cater to students and other residents during a meeting Thursday. This quarter, architect John Kaliski led a class that aims to update the Westwood Village Specific Plan based on input from residents and businesses. The plan is […]
Student photo protests transgender identity, raises free speech debate
Members of the UCLA community launched into a debate about free speech after a UCLA student posted a photograph in which students denounced the validity of identifying as transgender. In the photograph circulated on Facebook and Twitter, three UCLA students and one UC San Diego student held signs that read, “Get your agenda out of […]
USAC approves changes to election code aimed at fairness, transparency
The undergraduate student government voted Tuesday to require next year’s USAC Election Board to respond more quickly to complaints and randomize the order of candidates’ names on the undergraduate student election ballot. Members of the Constitutional Review Committee presented to the council Tuesday night. They recommended the election board revise the USAC Election Code to […]
Longtime physics and astronomy professor Maha Ashour-Abdalla dies at 72
Maha Ashour-Abdalla worked hard for every presentation she gave, whether it was to top scientists or her undergraduate physics class, said David Schriver, a physics professor and one of Ashour-Abdalla’s first graduate students. “She motivated me to change my own approach to teaching, and I will miss her joy, spirit and compassion,” Schriver said. Ashour-Abdalla, […]
The Rundown: May 10
Check out a breakdown of the UCLA sports stories you might have missed this week. Tennis coaches earn honors No. 2 UCLA men’s tennis has a ways to go before it knows exactly how to classify the 2016 season, but the coaches who have helped the team get to this point are already gaining recognition. […]