The stabbings of two UCLA hospital nurses Sunday have drawn renewed attention to a push by labor groups and state lawmakers for strengthened workplace violence prevention standards in California’s hospitals.

The Daily Bruin took home 23 awards from the California College Media Association’s annual competition Saturday, including the top award for General Newspaper Excellence.

The Bruin won 10 first-place awards and 13 second- and third-place awards.

Samuel See, a former UCLA graduate student and assistant professor at Yale University, died of a heart attack related to acute methamphetamine and amphetamine intoxication, according to an autopsy released Monday by the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Steve Collett, a recent graduate of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and well-known Libertarian activist, died Oct. 27 of complications related to pneumonia.
Collett, 59, was president of Venice-based Collett & Company, Inc., a public accounting firm, for more than a decade before entering political life as a candidate for California’s 33rd Congressional District, which includes UCLA, in 2012.