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UCLA plans to end its emergency status Friday evening and restart in-person classes Tuesday. Most of the 22,000 on-campus students voluntarily left the school last week.
The Disaster Recovery Center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the next several weeks.
The UCLA campus in Westwood is not in an evacuation zone but right next to mandatory evacuation areas as well as evacuation warning zones. But many on- and off-campus students have already left.
On Friday, the South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a smoke advisory for the fourth consecutive day, largely due to the elevated levels of unhealthful pollution billowing from the Eaton fire in Altadena.
Fire devastated at least two Pacific Palisades schools and five Pasadena Unified campuses while hundreds of campuses are closed. UCLA will go online for two days.
A record number of Californians enrolled at UC in the fall while out-of-state and international students declined. Berkeley and UCLA bucked national trends at elite universities with increased Black and Latino enrollment.
Many college-bound students with undocumented immigrant parents are hesitant to submit federal financial aid applications as President-elect Donald Trump vows to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally.
UCLA police said a person in a black Mercedes convertible yelled a homophobic slur and another threw “wads of paper” at a student near campus on Christmas Eve.
Four men, including three suspects wearing black ski masks and “all-black police-style uniforms,” took a large sum of cash and jewelry from an apartment early Saturday morning.
The University of California has resolved nine federal civil rights complaints of antisemitism and bias against Muslim, Arab and pro-Palestinian students stemming from protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
