Lovell Sevilla, who served as a UCLA student counselor for more than two decades, died on Aug. 10 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after battling acute myeloid leukemia for nine months. She was 48. Sevilla’s family and friends said they will remember her for her fierce “warrior” spirit and sincere interest in bettering […]
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Former executive vice chancellor Andrea Rich known as dynamic leader
Andrea L. Rich, UCLA’s first female executive vice chancellor known for being a charismatic leader, died from acute myeloid leukemia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on July 28. She was 71. Many of her closest family and friends said they remember Rich as a dynamic thinker, avid traveler and poetry writer. “My mother […]
Students translate Holocaust testimonies for deaf community
The faces from the videos in the museum exhibit spoke to Benjamin Lewis, but he could not hear what they were saying. The lecturer in American Sign Language said he thought a permanent exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance would better serve the deaf community if the video testimonies of the Holocaust victims and survivors […]
Students gather on campus to celebrate end of Ramadan
Sarah Bundogji woke up at 3:40 a.m. and ate her suhoor, or pre-dawn meal, alone. The UCLA alumna celebrated the first days of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, for the first time away from her home in Orange County as she finished up her last summer classes. “I figured I could just […]
With special election approaching, USAC appoints Election Board chair
The undergraduate student government appointed next year’s Election Board chair on time at its meeting on Tuesday. The newly appointed chair, Shagun Kabra, a third-year mathematics/economics student, will oversee both the regular spring USAC election and a special election in the fall for the transfer student representative and general representative positions. “It’s a smaller and […]
Scholarship winner UCLA-bound after weathering financial circumstances
Rocky Rojas knew there was more to the world than his conservative town in Arizona. “I feel limited in my location because there’s not a lot of opportunities or room for involvement in my community in Arizona,” said Rojas, who will be a first-year student at UCLA this fall. Growing up in a financially unstable […]
USAC recap – July 22
The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. During summer, council meetings take place biweekly on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students. Watch a live stream of the meeting on the USAC Live! YouTube channel. Agenda The council approved contingency programming allocations […]