From the LA Times: UCLA’s Bruin Woods camp will be closed for the summer as the school faces allegations of hazing traditions and sexual assault from two students who worked at the Lake Arrowhead getaway, officials confirmed to The Times on Thursday. The 10-week camp, which hosts 85 alumni families each week, notified participants about the closure Friday. “We are aware of allegations of inappropriate activity concerning our Bruin Woods program, and continue to look into the matter,” UCLA spokesperson Margery Grey said in a statement to The Times. “We are also making changes in an effort to provide an exceptional experience for everyone.”
Grey said the suspension was necessary to “fully update our operations.” She said she did not know what specific changes officials were making at the camp, or whether the camp would resume operations for the 2024 summer. The temporary closure comes months after UCLA students Samea Derrick and Lydia Dixon, who worked at the camp last summer, filed a lawsuit against the University of California regents in October.
In the lawsuit and in previous interviews with The Times, the pair alleged they were sexually assaulted and hazed by returning student counselors, including physical and verbal abuse, sensory deprivation, forced nudity and coercive drinking games. The lawsuit also alleged that the hazing activities, referred to by counselors as “traditions,” had taken place for decades at the camp, which was established in 1985 for UCLA alumni and their families...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-11/uclas-bruin-woods-camp-closed-summer-amid-sexual-assault-hazing-allegations.
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