Officials from the UCLA North American Integration and Development Center, or NAID center, announced a website Saturday that allows people to discover which immigrant communities are prevalent in certain areas. Rafael Barrientos, chief information officer of the Ministry of Economy of El Salvador who spearheaded the project to create the website, demonstrated how the site […]
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UCLA class sizes, housing demands to rise in response to state mandate
UCLA class sizes and housing demand will increase next year when the university accepts 500 additional in-state students, as mandated by the May deal struck between Gov. Jerry Brown and the University of California Board of Regents. The budget deal will allocate an extra $25 million to the UC if the University accepts an additional […]
SJP rallies as part of International Day of Action for Palestine
Several dozen students from the organization Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA held a rally outside Kerckhoff Hall on Wednesday, as part of the International Day of Action for Palestine, an annual event at university campuses across the world. The event took place a day after multiple terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and central Israel […]
New Calif. law allows for automatic voter registration through DMV
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Saturday that will automatically register all eligible voters when they obtain or renew their driver’s license or state identification card, but people will be able to opt out of the automatic registration. California is the second state in the U.S. to pass an automatic voter registration law after Oregon. […]
Uber CEO, UCLA alum Travis Kalanick talks entrepreneurial drive
The CEO and co-founder of Uber Technologies, Inc. told hundreds of students Monday starting a multi-billion dollar company was surprisingly lonely. “After a certain period of time, people who are close to you start to doubt (you’ll be successful),” said Uber CEO Travis Kalanick at an award ceremony in Royce Hall. “You only talk to […]
LA event Politicon features political discussions, student debates
Ethan Dodd snuck up in front of conservative commentator Ann Coulter and picked up his phone to quickly snap a selfie with her at a political convention Friday. Dodd, a first-year political science and economics student and member of Bruin Democrats, was one of many students who attended Politicon, an event held at the Los […]
Berky Nelson remembered for four decades of service as mentor, role model
H. Viscount “Berky” Nelson, a respected UCLA mentor, director and mediator, died Oct. 5 in Los Angeles at the age of 76, following a lengthy battle with cancer. Nelson, who began working at UCLA in 1969, initially served as the director of campus programs and activities. He spent these first few years developing relationships with […]