Nearly 1,000 students have signed a petition to create a transfer student representative seat within the undergraduate student government, but the measure is still far from the number of signatures it needs to have to be voted on by students during spring elections. To gather more signatures for the petition, transfer student advocates are holding […]
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UCLA Burkle Center panel to discuss situation in Crimea
The last time Anya Ice visited her home in Crimea, she was a citizen of Ukraine. The next time she returns, she’ll be a member of the Russian Federation – and one of the minority of Crimeans who wishes she wasn’t. “I am fearful and uncertain if I can go back to visit Crimea in […]
UCLA’s Taiwanese American Union hosts annual culture event
He left his family in Taiwan four years ago to attend boarding school in Connecticut and an American college. Though he is still far from home, first-year statistics student Darren Ho said he has found ways to stay connected to the culture by joining the Taiwanese American Union and performing in its annual culture show […]
Bruins emotional as Dance Marathon 2014 comes to bittersweet end
The stadium echoed with a deep rumble as students in red T-shirts led a stampede around the dance floor to rally up last-minute morale among the exhausted dancers. They spilled onto the stage and jumped up and down to pulsating beats, as the stadium reverberated with an audible thud in the final hour of Dance […]
Student injured by oven explosion in engineering building
A UCLA student was injured in an explosion while reportedly conducting an experiment in a lab in the Engineering V building Saturday evening, officials said. The student’s face, chest and neck were burned when an oven exploded at about 6:30 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The student was taken to Ronald Reagan […]
Live blog: Dance Marathon 2014
Nearly 900 people are participating in this year’s 13th annual Dance Marathon – a 26-hour-long fundraising event where students pledge stay on their feet the entire time to take a stand against pediatric AIDS.
Iranian Student Group at UCLA holds annual culture show
The second time his family traveled to the United States from Iran, they never went home. Growing up in the United States, Hirbod Rahimi, a fourth-year neuroscience and biology student, often felt left out living in a neighborhood where he thought his culture was never acknowledged. Adapting to a new culture was easy, but forgetting […]