University police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually battered a UCLA student Monday morning. The student was walking on Gayley Avenue at 12:58 a.m. when she was sexually battered, according to a UCPD alert. She confronted the man and recorded him on her cellphone, but he grabbed her phone. The man then returned […]
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Rutgers cancels future home-and-home football series with UCLA
This story was updated Feb. 1 at 8:00 p.m. UCLA announced Thursday that Rutgers would withdraw from a future two-game football series. The home-and-home series, scheduled for the 2020 and 2021 seasons, was originally scheduled for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. It was rescheduled in 2014 to accommodate Rutgers’ schedule. Rutgers informed athletic director Dan Guerrero of […]
Editorial: UCLA should monitor management after slew of administrative failures
UCLA has had a rocky track record this past year: It made numerous errors when dealing with the Skirball fire and tried covering up problems in its Lab School. And it looks like the university won’t be scoring any points for holding its extension program accountable either. Last week, UCLA Extension announced major layoff plans […]
Editorial: USAC should allocate fees UCLA once misplaced to its endowment
The undergraduate student government has struck gold. And it’s all thanks to a series of accounting mistakes. Over the past three years, UCLA collected the Bruin Bash and the Arts Restoring Community fees, but did not distribute the collected sums to the Undergraduate Students Association Council. The council operated on a diminished budget over this […]
Campus Queries: What makes this flu season so bad?
Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: Why is this season’s flu so dangerous, and what can be done to prevent it from spreading? A: The 2017-2018 flu season is the most adverse season in three years. In the […]
Editorial: State needs to allocate stable funding for UC to prevent tuition hike
Nothing is more certain for University of California students than tuition hikes. Almost every year, students watch as UC administrators and state politicians scramble to negotiate state funding to avoid raising tuition fees. And almost every time, the UC walks away with less funding than it hopes for, along with a bag of threats from […]
Editorial: Ban on in-house fraternity events with alcohol must be made permanent
This post was updated Jan. 18 at 9:43 p.m. Fraternity parties are a fixture of college life. And sexual violence is a fixture of fraternity parties. Earlier this week, UCLA’s Interfraternity Council indefinitely banned in-house events with alcohol at all fraternities following an alleged sexual assault Saturday night. The perpetrator, a UCLA student, was arrested […]