Los Angeles
May 14, 2022 4:42 p.m.LA Women’s March draws thousands together in support of abortion rights
This post was updated May 16 at 12:06 a.m.
Thousands of people gathered outside Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday in support of abortion rights and to protest the potential overturn of Roe v.
By Anushka Chakrabarti and Saumya Gupta
Campus
May 6, 2022 10:27 p.m.2022 USAC election reaches conclusion, sees lowest voter turnout in over 10 years
This post was updated May 8 at 9:51 p.m.
Voter turnout for the 2022 undergraduate student government election was 15.19%, the lowest in more than a decade.
By Anushka Chakrabarti, Saumya Gupta, and Alexandra Kaiser
Campus
April 11, 2022 1:44 p.m.USAC 2022 spring elections ballot features 23 candidates, 1 referendum
This post was updated April 13 at 11:53 p.m.
Undergraduate students will vote on 23 candidates for office and one referendum for the spring 2022 Undergraduate Students Association Council elections.
By Anushka Chakrabarti
A Closer Look
March 9, 2022 11:14 p.m.Leaders respond to concerns about racism in medical school’s psychiatry department
UCLA Health leadership announced the current interim chair of the psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences department will return to faculty duties soon and the process to find a new permanent chair will begin, two days after faculty members sent a letter requesting a response from psychiatry department leadership following a Daily Bruin investigation.
By Anushka Chakrabarti
Campus
Feb. 24, 2022 11:41 a.m.UCLA receives record-breaking number of applications for 2nd consecutive year
This post was updated Feb. 28 at 12:29 a.m.
UCLA received the largest number of applications across the University of California system for the second year in a row for fall 2022, but systemwide transfer applications decreased by almost 6,000.
By Anushka Chakrabarti, Constanza Montemayor, and Christine Tran
A Closer Look
Feb. 17, 2022 1:23 p.m.UCLA medical school faculty allege racially biased practices in psychiatry department
Faculty of color in the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences said they experienced and observed racial discrimination in various instances, including being passed over for promotions, ignored in decision-making and discouraged in efforts to hire more faculty of color.
By Anushka Chakrabarti
A Closer Look
Feb. 3, 2022 9:10 a.m.Students, classmate detail former UCLA lecturer’s pattern of disturbing behavior
This post was updated March 4 at 3:23 p.m.
Editor’s note: This article contains mentions of disturbing topics, including pornographic content, misogyny, pedophilia, threats of interpersonal and mass violence, racism, antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.
By Anushka Chakrabarti and Maanas Hemanth Oruganti
Campus
Jan. 31, 2022 9:55 p.m.UCPD continues investigation, UCLA confirms former researcher is in custody
This post was updated Feb. 3 at 12:50 a.m.
The UCPD and UCLA Behavioral Intervention Team are investigating a former philosophy postdoctoral researcher following his recent threats against students and faculty in the UCLA Department of Philosophy, including mention of a mass shooting.
By Anushka Chakrabarti and Maanas Hemanth Oruganti
Campus
Dec. 21, 2021 9:10 p.m.UCLA to operate remotely for initial weeks amid rising COVID-19 cases due to omicron variant
UCLA will return to remote instruction for the first two weeks of winter quarter amid a rise in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron variant in Los Angeles County, according to a campuswide announcement from UCLA administrators Tuesday.
UCLA is the sixth University of California campus to announce that they will return to remote instruction for the first two weeks of winter quarter as of Tuesday.
Additionally, all students and staff in the UC system will be required to receive the COVID-19 booster shot, according to the message from President Michael V.
By Anushka Chakrabarti
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