More than a dozen students are helping faculty members develop a proposal for a new academic diversity requirement by the end of this month.The committee formed last month after the chair of the College of Letters and Science Faculty Executive Committee, Christina Palmer, asked several UCLA professors to work on a new diversity requirement proposal […]
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UCLA students explore artificial intelligence
Intrigued by how the brain processed language and thought, Shayna Lurya came to UCLA to study linguistics and psychology. But instead of limiting her studies to the human brain, she soon absorbed herself into something a little less human: computers. “If a computer can understand human language, can they think like a person? That’s the […]
IMHOME student volunteers offer support to the homeless
After three hours of unpolished dicing and slicing, Ori Benoni and Amelia Ribbens tasted the pasta they had painstakingly prepared for the residents of Alexandria House, a transitional homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles. Benoni took one bite from her plate of fettuccine alfredo and twisted her mouth. The aftertaste had a curiously smoky tinge […]
Westwood BID’s plan for parklet met with mixed feelings
Westwood Village parking spots may soon get a makeover, if city officials approve an application to install a “parklet” on Kinross Avenue. The proposed parklet is a small extension of the sidewalk onto the street that provides the amenities of a park such as benches, tables and a garden. The space would take the place […]
Spoken word poet sheds light on incarceration, jails
He’s dressed in all black, with his hood over his head. In the background, a darkened street appears on a screen behind him. He lifts his hood up, and the lights come on. “Things are often not what they seem,” he begins.Bryonn Bain, a prison activist and spoken word poet based in Brooklyn, N.Y., opened […]
Judicial board to hold hearing on alleged conflicts of interest
The undergraduate student government Judicial Board will hold a hearing next week to review the legitimacy of two current councilmembers’ votes on a controversial divestment resolution that went to council last quarter.
‘Dear Danwon’ hopes to comfort families of Sewol victims
High school sophomore Allen Geronimo checked his email every hour for nearly three weeks, hoping for a message from his South Korean pen pal who was a passenger on the Sewol ferry that sunk last month. “Half of me said that he probably wouldn’t make it, because he couldn’t swim. The other half of me […]