Author Archives: Wafiqah Basrai

UCLA is working on a fundraising campaign to coincide with its centennial ““ an effort to secure funding for the future.

During a week in which people were commemorating the Holocaust worldwide, several student groups were in Bruin Plaza trying to educate students about Palestinian suffering on Thursday through a representation of the security fence that currently borders Israeli and Palestine territories.

Despite the 93-degree weather Sunday, about 1,000 students and community members gathered in Wilson Plaza to raise money for the Mattel Children’s Hospital in UCLA’s ninth annual Run/Walk.

On her first day as a volunteer for the Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, Amanda Maddahi was immediately inspired and made a promise to herself that, if she could, she would help raise funds to help the children in the hospital.

Last year, when Rupa Lalchandani heard about the human papillomavirus vaccination, she was shocked at how many of her friends knew about the vaccination but hadn’t gotten it.

In a panel discussion titled “Facing Denial, the Last Stage of Genocide,” four experts spoke about the injustice of denying the Armenian genocide.

Not being able to marry her same-sex partner of eight years has been a burden for Rebecca Allegretto, not only emotionally, but financially as well.