82-year-old set to graduate with bachelor’s degree almost 45 years in the making

Simone King is a painter, runner, golfer and tennis player, and will be graduating from UCLA at the age of 82 with a bachelor’s degree in Korean. But despite her impressive feats, King said her degree did not come easy. King started her education in the mid-1970s at Los Angeles Pierce College, but dropped out […]

Conference provides space for women to network, discuss workplace issues

Ryan Hilliard grew up reading “Dear America,” a series of novels written from the perspectives of young girls in different moments of history. However, throughout her academic career, she found a lack of historical literature written about or by women. This made Hilliard realize she wanted to write more literature about women from a female […]

Student groups band together for weeklong fair on homelessness

Campus organizations hosted a club fair on Bruin Plaza to raise awareness of homelessness and kick off the fifth annual Homelessness Awareness Week on Monday. The Mobile Clinic Project, Swipe Out Hunger, Hunger Project, Bruin Shelter and CalFresh Initiative hosted the Homelessness Awareness Fair to promote dialogue about the overarching issue of homelessness in the […]

Organization teaches Indian languages, helps students reconnect with roots

Abel Thomas lost most of his ability to speak his first language, Malayalam, when he immigrated to the United States in 2005 at the age of 6. He said he was disheartened by his inability to speak with his family members who lived in India and to sustain emotional connections with them. Thomas, a second-year […]