Following low voter participation in last week’s undergraduate student government election, some students are criticizing the efforts of the candidates, councilmembers and the Election Board in promoting the race. With voter turnout at just 13.6 percent in the Undergraduate Students Association Council special election, the Green Initiative Fund referendum and the Bruin Diversity Referendum automatically […]
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Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed advocates equal opportunities for UCLA transfers
Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed’s first months at UCLA were not what she expected from her dream school. As a person who needs to be surrounded by community, she felt stressed after an adviser told her to only focus on her academics, discouraging her from pursuing the leadership positions she wanted. Her initial feeling of isolation at UCLA […]
Student experiences motivate candidate to run for transfer rep spot
Michelle Balatbat has gone through the ups and downs of starting over in new schools multiple times. Changing high schools in her junior year, she learned to be outgoing and personable to become part of a community. Then in college, she learned the importance of being involved again when she started at UCLA, leaving UC […]
Former NICU patients reunite with medical staff
Dr. Uday Devaskar rode the near-52 miles home from UCLA to Oxnard in a private ambulance with prematurely born Ione Villanueva in 2001. When they arrived, family and friends were waiting for Ione, who was able to spend time in her crib with her twin sister, Macy, before she died from liver failure in her […]
Queer Alliance hosts culture night with visual art, poetry
Rashmi Raviprasad walked to the front of the crowd to recite a free-form poem about the way her queer identity has affected the relationships in her life. She talked about her family, her culture and the way that the different elements of her life intersect. The second-year astrophysics student’s poem was one of the many […]
Show exhibits artistic elements of Lebanese culture
At center stage, two students swayed their hips to upbeat Lebanese music. Their dresses, traditional black bedlahs embellished with coins, accentuated their dancing with rhythmic jingling. Although Yara Azar, a second-year bioengineering student, has never worn the traditional garment before or danced on stage, she fondly remembers family gatherings when her grandmother taught her the […]
Women’s Faculty Club celebrates 95th anniversary
The UCLA Faculty Women’s Club, one of the university’s most longstanding organizations, celebrated its 95th anniversary at their annual spring luncheon on Tuesday. Founded in 1918, the Faculty Women’s Club originally consisted of faculty wives of the Los Angeles Normal School who supported the creation of a four-year university in Southern California. Over the years, […]