About 200 UCLA employees called on administrators to stop the university’s alleged restrictions on union representation at a protest Wednesday in front of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The UCLA Skilled Trades Workers, a group that consists of employees who manage buildings, electricity and other campus operations, is in the process of gaining representation […]
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Country music gets little love from UCLA student body
Trace Jansen feels alone in his love for country music at UCLA. For Jansen and other fans, the country music scene at UCLA is characterized more by hostility from other students rather than the welcoming culture he experienced back home in Oregon. The first-year economics student has met few other fans thus far at UCLA, […]
UCLA alum’s nonprofit uses new technology for Niger Delta cleanup
A nonprofit organization founded by a UCLA alumnus is working to clean up a massive oil spill in the Niger Delta using recently developed technology. A United Nations Environment Programme report published in 2011 revealed individuals living in the Niger Delta were drinking water contaminated with quantities of benzene, a carcinogen, that were up to […]
2016 Graduate Students Association platforms
Jonathan Koch Running for: President Platforms: Improve graduate student housing Making the procedure for approving campus fees more democratic Improve sexual harassment policy Improve working conditions for graduate students Experience: Formerly worked on decreasing class size as a head steward of the UC Academic Workers for a Democratic Union Recording secretary of United Auto […]
Women’s water polo competes against flawless USC for No.1 spot
The shot clock had expired, the pool was quiet and UCLA digested the 10-7 loss to crosstown rival USC at the UC Irvine Invitational. It was the second loss of the season and the same story for the Bruins – an all too familiar loss to an all too familiar opponent. “Throughout the game in […]
UCLA football focuses on power run game with new RB trio
UCLA football has big shoes to fill in the backfield with the program’s third-leading all-time rusher Paul Perkins graduating. Luckily, the Bruins have three capable runners fighting to cram into those shoes: junior Nate Starks and sophomores Soso Jamabo and Bolu Olorunfunmi. In the end, the trio will likely split action at the running back […]
UCLA music students perform Armenian pieces in Yerevan, lauded by natives
The audience paused for a brief moment before rising to its feet in a standing ovation for the musicians of VEM Quartet and their mezzo-soprano, Danielle Bayne. Just days before, members of the group, none of whom are ethnically Armenian, were feeling the immense pressure of performing Armenian classical music in its native homeland. Bayne, […]