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Several hundred students called for university police to institute a sensitivity training course for all its officers during a protest Tuesday, following a grand jury’s non-indictment of Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
About 30 protesters marched around campus and in Westwood Monday to protest a grand jury’s non-indictment of a Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown. The protesters, many of them students, called for reform of the criminal justice system, which they perceive to be biased against racial minorities. They took […]
While UCLA’s demonstration in front of Powell Library remained relatively small, students in Berkeley, Davis, Irvine and San Diego marched and occupied administration buildings.
PASADENA—There were no wild screams. No mad dashes across the field. No mayhem in the Rose Bowl. Instead, when the clock hit zero in UCLA’s 38-20 victory over USC, the Bruins calmly walked to midfield to shake hands with their opponents, then jogged to the student section, where they were hailed by their fans. UCLA […]
A University of California Regents committee voted 7-2 to approve a plan to increase tuition by up to 5 percent annually for the next five years depending on state funding, as hundreds of students rallied outside its meeting Wednesday and protested the plan. “The plan is not only integral to the stability, but to the […]
Derek Herrera was in combat when a sniper’s bullet struck him on a Special Operations mission in Afghanistan in June 2012. “It’s inherently risky what we do (in the military),” Herrera said. “That’s one of the reasons the experience is so memorable and meaningful.” The sniper’s bullet left Herrera, now a student in Anderson School […]
