Nicole Moreland lost two friends to suicide during her four years at UCLA. One was Sam Oliver, a fourth-year economics student who died from an apparent suicide in December. Before his death, Oliver was involved in discussion panels about depression and suicide, which have continued on campus. Moreland, a fourth-year psychology student and programming director […]
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Cap and Gown Rental Project seeks to trim financial strain of graduation
The Cap and Gown Rental Project loaned 17 of its 20 caps and gowns in less than an hour when it opened on May 19. The rental period was intended to last until May 22, but ended early after all the graduation gear was rented out on May 20. Hanita Dhillon, a third-year English student […]
Student-organized vigil commemorates Bosnian Genocide
Merima Tricic’s family was forced to leave Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993. The mass funeral she attended a few years ago was a reminder of what her relatives faced during the Bosnian War. Like many Bosnian students at UCLA, Tricic, a third-year world arts and cultures, political science and study of religion student, is a […]
Students face challenges with absentee voting for elections abroad
Karishma Lall, an exchange student from the U.K., had been waiting for years to vote in the U.K. parliamentary election for the first time Thursday, but her postal vote didn’t arrive in the U.S. on time. For many international and exchange students at UCLA, elections in their countries pose challenges, and they may be unable […]
UCLA’s 12th Relay for Life raises money for American Cancer Society
Losing her mother to cancer sparked Laura Kaufman’s decision to join Colleges Against Cancer as a first-year student at UCLA, and she has participated in Relay for Life every year since. The 24-hour event, which began at noon on Saturday at UCLA, is organized by Colleges Against Cancer to fundraise for the American Cancer Society, […]
Former Daily Bruin writer wins Pulitzer as part of award-winning staff
“Yo mama, your little girl just won a Pulitzer.” That was the text Alexa Vaughn sent her mother after hearing the news from a colleague at The Seattle Times. Vaughn, a UCLA alumna who wrote for the Daily Bruin from January 2006 to June 2007, won a Pulitzer Prize in April for her involvement in […]
CIA simulation, recruitment event provide insight into analyst job
Some UCLA students got a surprise when their group was randomly called to perform an “elevator briefing” during a Central Intelligence Agency simulation event Wednesday. Presented with a hypothetical national security crisis, the students had less than an hour to prepare a mock five-minute briefing for the CIA director in an actual elevator. The students […]