After pedaling through open countryside and busy highways for weeks, Lizi Urbanowicz is more than 1,000 miles into her 4,000 mile-long bike trip across the United States to contribute to affordable housing. Urbanowicz, a rising third-year anthropology student, is volunteering this summer with Bike and Build, a nonprofit organization that facilitates cross-country biking trips. On […]
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UCPD searching for suspect in second Roebling peeping incident
University police are searching for a man who was seen peeping into a North Village apartment on July 2. A UCLA student confronted a man who was looking into an apartment window at about 11 a.m. on Roebling Avenue, according to a UCPD alert.The man told the student he locked himself out of his apartment […]
New gym for grad students to open before KREC closes its doors
Graduate students can visit a new gym that will open by the time the Kinross Recreation Center closes on Jan. 1. Michael Skiles, president of the Graduate Students Association, said the new gym will offer all the same amenities and local convenience that the current graduate student gym offers for five to 10 years until […]
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health announces new chair
The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health announced a new chair and professor of epidemiology Tuesday. Karin Michels, who received her doctorate in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and in biostatistics at Cambridge University, will join the faculty June 30. She will replace the interim chair and professor of epidemiology and medicine, […]
Students feel the heat of wildfires in Southern California
Sonia Puri’s family packed valuables in their car Tuesday night as fires scorched the hills near their home, so they would be able to flee at a moment’s notice. Puri, a rising fourth-year biology student, said she and her family live one block away from a mandatory evacuation zone but decided to stay put. […]
New KazuNori location brings hand-rolled sushi to Westwood Village
Sushi chefs swiftly rolled rice, fish and seaweed in front of dozens of new customers who visited a restaurant when it opened Tuesday. KazuNori, located in a recently restored building on Gayley and Kinross avenues, is a sushi bar where chefs prepare sushi by hand instead of using a mat, said Clement Mok, one of […]
UCLA community holds vigil to commemorate victims of Orlando tragedy
On a banner decorated with a heart logo, UCLA community members wrote colorful messages that read “#QueerLoveIsRevolutionary,” “No. More. Vigils.” and “Let us build a world where we can love in peace,” among other notes. The banner stood next to the McClure Stage in Bruin Plaza during a vigil organized by the Lesbian Gay Bisexual […]