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 […]
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Women’s conference offers attendees exposure to professional fields
Student government officials hosted an all-day women’s conference to encourage women to pursue leadership positions in the professional world. The LEAN IN UC: UC Women’s Leadership Conference 2019 featured 65 speakers, including Amy Ziering, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, and Cleo Wade, an artist, poet and author. Speakers addressed how the #MeToo movement has impacted the […]
Student organization hosts three-day Korean cultural awareness event
Students celebrated a Korean national holiday on campus for the first time Friday to raise awareness of Korean history by performing Korean drumming, masked dances and a re-enacted march. Hanoolim, a Korean cultural awareness group, hosted a celebration of Samil Day, also known as Independence Movement Day, a Korean holiday that commemorates the protests of […]
Experimental lab advocates diverse research for political science students
A new lab aims to engage students in political research using experimentation and data analysis. Efrén Pérez, director of UCLA’s Center for American Politics and Public Policy and a political science professor, established the Race, Ethnicity, Politics and Society Experimental Lab in August 2018 to provide funding and guidance for student research projects, according to […]
Common Book author pledges to donate profits after controversy over border experiences
This year’s Common Book author agreed to donate half of his speaker’s honorarium profits to undocumented students at UCLA after students and faculty criticized him for profiting off the stories of immigrants at the southern border. Francisco Cantú is the author of “The Line Becomes A River,” this year’s UCLA Common Book. The Common Book […]
Panel members discuss ongoing experiences recovering from eating disorders
This post was updated Feb. 28 at 3:59 p.m. Elena Eu said recovery from her eating disorder wasn’t a finish line, but rather an ongoing journey at a panel Tuesday night. “It wasn’t one day where I woke up, and no more eating disorder,” Eu said. “It was about every day making choices, making a […]
Bruin Tea: Who is the oldest and the youngest student at UCLA?
Quarter system got you down? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Bruin Tea is a series investigating student questions and petty concerns about UCLA. Question: Who is the oldest and the youngest student at UCLA? Michelle Chiang, a third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student, is the youngest student at UCLA. Chiang turned 17 […]