The gunman in yesterday’s murder-suicide at UCLA has been identified as 38-year-old Mainak Sarkar, who shot and killed professor William Klug. On Thursday, police said an unidentified woman whose name appeared on a “kill list” written by Sarkar has been found dead in Minnesota.
A shooting has been reported at an engineering building on the UCLA campus. Students are being told to take cover in a secure location. As of now, there’s no other information available.
Students and faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles are protesting the university’s decision to welcome back Gabriel Piterberg, a history professor who has been accused by two graduate students of serial sexual harassment and assault. The protestors argue that UCLA’s decision to allow Piterberg back,…
Black student groups at UCLA are understandably unhappy after reports leaked out of a predominantly white fraternity and sorority that held a “Kanye Western” themed mixer. According to the student paper, guests wore “baggy clothes, plumped lips and padded bottoms, or as “Kardashians.”
The question of whether gay proponents of same-sex marriage have lasting sway with those who are against it has always been interesting. And recently, a study was published in Science that suggested that, yes, canvassers who have a personal stake in a political cause do have an impact. The problem? The data was likely…
UCLA's Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies has released its 2014 Hollywood Diversity Report — predictably, for women and minorities, the results are dismal. And when you break down the minority portion by race, the figures are even more depressing.
On Tuesday, a sign that read "asian women R Honkie white*-boy worshipping Whores" was found taped to a Vietnamese Student Union sign. Charming. The very next day, a creepily hand-scrawled "Asian Women are White-Boy Worshipping Sluts" was posted in the women's bathroom of Powell Library.
As we all know, everything delicious is terrible for you. That is especially true of sweets, which are so tasty but also can cause nasty things like diabetes. Still, most of us are able to convince ourselves that eating sugar probably won't kill us. Sure, but you know what will happen if we keep stuffing our faces…
Like Love Potion no. 9, a decent film adaptation of Infinite Jest, and passable meatless bacon, the notion that a dating website like eharmony can utilize user-entered data to precisely and scientifically predict future relationship potential is a quixotic myth willed into being by our stupid dreams and kept alive by…
The UCLA student behind the now-famous racist video rant and the subsequent "I have no idea why I posted that" apology announced in a statement to The Daily Bruin that she will be leaving the school immediately.
Alexandra Wallace, the UCLA junior whose racist rant about Asian-American students made headlines this weekend, has apologized. But she's reportedly receiving threats.
A woman who purports to be a UCLA student has released a video that went viral over the weekend, wherein she makes various racist claims about Asian-American students. The university has called the video "repugnant."
Berkeley, CA, Jan 22: UCLA head coach Nikki Caldwell yells from the bench during the first half of their NCAA women's college basketball game against California.
Los Angeles, December 18: Undocumented UCLA students Martha Vasquez, Jessica Ortiz, and Miriam Vasquez hold hands as they follow the Senate's cloture vote on the DREAM act. The measure fell five votes short of the 60 needed to move forward.
The members of UCLA's Gamma Rho Lambda acknowledge that the terms "LGBT" and "sorority" don't necessarily go together for a lot of people. But they hope to change that.
One small victory for the beleaguered women of Hollywood: writer Jennifer O'Kieffe of UCLA took the top honors in this year's Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for her screenplay Sex and Sylvia Plath. Recalling strains of Mrs. Robinson, Sex is "a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who loses her virginity to a boy…
How times change. Take this image from a recently-released archive at UCLA showing a computer-created rendering of "Miss Formula", the 'perfect female'". Published in the LA Times in July 1964, "Miss Formula"'s curvaceous (and presumably, life-size) ideal has, of course, morphed into something a little more boyish and…
